A little Monday morning quiz: When someone emails to invite you to a trampoline park grand opening, do you:
A) Tell them you have better things to do or
B) Freak out and drop everything because TRAMPOLINES.
I’ll let you guess which one of these things I did.
Sky Zone Timonium is 2nd of its kind in Maryland and luckily for Betty and me, it’s like a mile and a half from our house. It is a 23,000 square foot warehouse with 16,000 square feet of trampolines. Yes, you read that correctly. Currently Sky Zone offers such fun activities as trampoline basketball, ultimate dodgeball, and a great big pit full of foam that you can belly flop into. There are several large party rooms that you can rent out for events. Eventually they will have fitness classes and you better believe I will be going back for those.
Our reservation was for one hour of jump time starting at 10:30am. The employees were friendly and helpful, and the place was very clean. I love not feeling like I have to bathe my child in hand sanitizer when I’m out someplace.
We collected our Sky Socks – bright orange with heavy rubber treads on the bottom – and headed up a ramp to the first big trampoline area for open jump. It looked super fun with a vast expanse of trampolines on the ground plus trampolines on the walls. I think I was just as – if not more – excited than Betty.
Unfortunately I would not know from personal experience how super fun those particular trampolines are because I only jumped for about 10 seconds, or long enough to get this epic photo:
Let me be clear that I understand what Sky Zone is trying to accomplish with their rules. The main free-bounce area is divided into three sections: young people (such as Betty) on the left, bigger kids in the middle, and adults on the far right. I took Betty to her area and she started jumping. She wanted me to jump with her and immediately a referee came over and told me I needed to stop and if I wanted to jump I would need to go waaaay over on the other side. Because I’m just going to leave my small child there to go bounce on trampolines across the room.
Obviously this is all in the name of safety, but I wish they would switch the adult area with the bigger kids that so parents could jump while still sticking by their small ones. Some of those kids were nearly my size!
Anyway Betty was having fun so I wasn’t going to let this dampen my spirits. We got in line for the big foam pit which ended up being cool although getting back out of the foam once you land in it is a workout in itself.
She wanted to stick around the foam pit for awhile, which was fine by me because I could participate with her.
There was a dodge ball game going on in one arena which we did not take part in for obvious reasons, but everyone in there seemed to be enjoying themselves. We rotated between the foam and the open jump area and our hour flew by. Betty had a blast and as a great bonus actually took a nap that afternoon.
After checking the Sky Zone Timonium website, I learned that they do have something called Toddler Time that I assume would be geared toward parents and young children and I think that would be better suited for us on our next trip. And of course I can’t wait to try out their upcoming fitness classes!
If you have a Sky Zone near you, definitely check it out for reasonably priced fun and a great alternative to the gym. We may even be looking into having a future birthday party there!
And for all my Baltimore-area friends, I have a pretty sweet surprise. Sky Zone Timonium has generously provided me with two 30 minute jump passes to that location for me to give away! There are a couple ways to enter that I’ve set up a Rafflecopter below. This giveaway runs from right now until midnight on Thursday night. Good luck to all who enter! Maybe we will have to join you when you go!
2 30-Minute Jump Passes to Sky Zone Timonium!
Have you ever been to a trampoline gym? What did you think?
I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday weekend! I think I might still be in a turkey coma. 🙂
xo,
Salt
my husband’s best friend is head of operations for the IN/KY skyzones. we love it. i’ve played in dodgeball tournaments there and participated in the fitness classes – SO. FUN. i’m so happy y’all enjoyed it and betty looks adorable, as always.
Woah what a fun job! I definitely want to check out at dodgeball tournament at some point! Betty definitely enjoyed herself. I mean…how could you not in a place like that?
that looks like the most fun place ever! next time I’m looking to cross train, I’m driving to Baltimore
This sounds like the best idea ever! 🙂
that makes no sense why they would want adults to LEAVE little ones… dumb.
My husband refuses to take me to our skyzone because he said he knows I’ll break something. He’s probably right.
It really did make no sense. I’m hoping that when we go back for the toddler session that I will actually be allowed to jump with her! I felt like I was going to break something when I was jumping for that picture up there.
I’ve never been to a trampoline gym, but I LOVE trampolines, and I would be all over that!
Ever since they opened one like a half hour from me I’ve been itching to go. I’m glad I waited because this one is so convenient! (We could literally walk to it!)
i’m totally entering this giveaway because… trampolines!!!
TRAMPOLINES!!!!! We need to have a party in one of the party rooms.
I’ve been to a gym that had trampolines, but not a whole gym dedicated to trampolines! Charlotte probably would tell me to go away anyway – so I’ll bounce on my own from afar. Totally entering!
We need a play date over there!
OMGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG. I want to do something like this so badly!! It sounds like so much fun! My cousins have a trampoline, so anytime we go see them in NJ we spend half the visit out there…usually because I beg them to come play with me on. I’m really a child in a 26 year old’s body 😉
I’m right there with you. It’s one of my favorite things about being a mom…all my inner kid can come out. 🙂
OH THIS LOOKS AWESOME. The last time I was on a trampoline I sprained my neck, but it was also when I was 7 years old so I think I might be able to get over my fear now 😉 plus I will be in Baltimore a lot coming up…
Yes! This place is totally safe too. I bet you would love it. YAY FOR VISITS!!
Foam Pit. Trampoline into Foam Pit. NUFF SAID
I really wanted to do a flip, but I chickened out. 🙂
there is a similar place out by Dulles that my kids like it’s lots of fun. I always think I am going to kill myself though 🙂
I felt a little like I was going to kill myself, but it was still so much fun. 🙂
yesssss trampolines!! i took gymnastics as a kid and loved these babies. looks like so much fun!!
There were these two little girls who were obviously gymnasts there doing all sorts of crazy flips. Betty was mesmerized!
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THAT’S SO UNBELIEVABLY COOL!!!!!!! I love it and wish I could do trampolining too.
This means you need to come to Baltimore for a visit!! 😀
Betty’s grin in the first picture just punched me in the ovaries! She just looks THRILLED.
Bahahaha she was thrilled to pieces about being there! 😀
Looks like a ton of fun! I am accident prone, so I usually avoid trampolines, but I’ve always thought those kinds of places looked so fun!
I assure you it’s safe!! There’s padding pretty much everywhere in there. If you get a chance you should go! (I’m pretty accident prone myself!)
Too cute!!! Salt and baby girl rockin’ the trampolines 🙂 No I have never been to a trampoline gym the freak me out haha lol 🙂 I just see myself breaking something.
She was definitely rocking out more than I was haha. It was awesome though! I’m pretty klutzy myself and there was lots of padding so I never felt too unsafe.
This looks like the most fun possible!!!
It was pretty darn fantastic!
I’ve seen these on FB but we don’t have anything like that around here. Looks like a lot of fun. Sometimes it’s hard going places when they don’t allow you do to stuff with your kids…sometimes the programmers don’t always think of “families” coming together to their facilities.
Betty looks so excited!!!!
I definitely think the whole Toddler Time thing is good, but they don’t have that every day (to my knowledge) so it would be nice if they had an area for parents to be with their little kids. Regardless she did have so much fun so that made it all worth it!
Whaaat that is SOOOOO COOL!!! I hope one opens Near me soon!!! Also, i just have to say that I would not want to leave my little one on the trampoline without me on it either! I nearly
Get trampled by high schoolers every day!!
Wow!! Sounds like fun!! Definitely entering the giveaway!!!
We have a few of those around my house and my kids love them! For a while my gym also had some kind of fitness trampoline class. I never Checked it out but it looked fun.
This looks like so much fun. I’m going to have to find one to take the nieces and nephews to.
That looks like so much fun!!! If I’m given the opportunity to jump on a trampoline, I do it ha. I think it’s because we never had one when I was younger and I begged my parents for one, but they never caved haha. I remember in high school, I was over at one of my teammate’s house and they had one and I got so tired and my legs were toast for the race the next day haha, but I had absolutely no regret!
I drive past this place every time I take the kids to My Gym, I’ve been meaning to check it out! Looks like fun!!
We have a trampoline park close to our house as well. It’s always a great rainy day option for the kiddos. They also offer fitness classes! I haven’t taken one yet, but I’m dying to!
That sounds like so much fun! Although I sprained my ankle on a trampoline when I was in high school and I’ve never been on one since! I am super intrigued by their fitness classes though – I’m imagining you doing trampoline yoga right now 🙂
Sounds like lots of fun!
SO much fun!! We have a skyzone here that we brought Ashton to a few months ago and he has a blast, on Sunday they have their toddler only jump and its a blast to watch all the little ones get their jump on!!