Hi. I know, I know, I've been MIA for a while. But, I'm back, and I have a great story for you!
So, it was kind of a gross day. It was trying to rain, so the result was insane humidity that made me look like Mufasa. Me and Chloe's aunts (Heather and Haley) decided to take Chloe to one of those indoor bounce house places. We spent a good hour bringing Chloe into all of the different bounce houses and she had a blast. We (the adults) also did some jumping. At one point, we ended up kind of parking ourselves in this one Sponge Bob-themed bounce house. It had a ladder and slide that Chloe could climb and go down all by herself. Heather decided to climb the ladder with Chloe, and while leaning against the mesh wall at the top, ended up kind of toppling over. She ended up stuck, and I mean stuck in between the mesh and the vinyl (the bouncy part) and was unable to get herself out. I left Chloe at the bottom of the slide with Haley while I tried, hastily, to climb up the slide to help her, but it was too slippery and I was laughing too hard to get up there. I went around to climb the ladder and found Heather in a very precarious position. She had her back into the mesh and her legs up on the vinyl and was in, what I can only describe as a "birthing" position. Literally. Legs up in the air and everything. I was laughing really hard at this point as I grabbed her arms and attempted to pull Heather up and out of the position she was in, all the while crying, "I'm going to pee!!" Somehow, I got Heather up but the force and projectile of the movement caused her to suddenly catapult, head first, into the mesh on the other side of the ladder. It was at that point that Heather completely disappeared and I peed myself as the bounce house started to deflate around us. I scrambled down the ladder, grabbed Chloe from Haley, and shoved her out of the entrance hole that was getting smaller and smaller as the house deflated. At the same time, a Jump Zone staff member came running and threw herself into the bounce house and began climbing the shrinking slide to save Heather. Heather would later tell us that she ended up landing on the blower, the only hard part in the bounce house, and it probably saved her life. She was able to use the blower to rock herself to a position where she could finally free herself. She had also shoved her face into mesh part so that she could breathe. I swear, if she had landed with her face into the vinyl, she probably would have suffocated. And if she hadn't landed on the blower, the staff member informed us, they would have had to call the fire department. IT WAS CRAZY. Now Heather, Haley, and I all have wet pants from peeing ourselves from laughing so hard, so we have to waddle ourselves through the establishment to the exit. Forever apologizing to the staff members for the debacle we caused. They said they were alerted the emergency by the fact that they could see the bounce house falling down from their front desk station. I'm pretty sure we're not allowed back there.
