New House

My wife having obtained a tenure track position at the UofL, she decided she should celebrate by buying something big for the family -- on the grounds of, what's the point of working this hard unless there is some kind of payoff?

So, she went out and bought a second 'house' for the kids.

As you can see, this thing is enormous! Bouncy house combined with slide, obstacle course, basket ball hoops, and punching bag. It's pretty cool.

Only complaint so far is that the manufacturer has to be kidding when they include directions for how to fold it up to fit back into it's carrying case. I know this is physically possible because I saw it come out of said case, but putting it back in....well, we can't even fold maps back up, and they are just little pieces of paper, not an enormous balloon house. But that aside, we're pretty happy with this.