Epic Playdate - Block Party Style!

I don't remember being a daydreamer when I was a kid but I know now that I'm older with four fun sons and an adventurous husband... I find myself wanderlusting every single day.  I'm either daydreaming about vacations or epic playdates.  Both of them fall under the same category for me - freedom and fun.

I can think up hundreds of outrageous and amazing scenarios for an epic playdate but the one that keeps popping up in my head is right here in my front yard.  I would close off our cul-de-sac and host the most epic block party!  See, I don't live in luxury.  We're not privileged and most of the kids in my neighborhood have never been to a waterpark or experienced a kid's pizza party.  I would let the kids run wild, at least for a few hours.  There would be tables of cupcakes, candies, cakes, donuts, cookies, brownies!  And coolers full of soda and pop, pop and soda!  And freezers of ice cream and paletas.  There would be two different cotton candy carts - one would be pink and the other blue!  I want a dunk tank with a clown sitting inside and a pie-in-the-face booth!  Our epic playdate would need hundreds of balloons, bright red ones - ready to be handed to anxious and happy kids.  There would be a balloon animal station but the only animals that you could have are dinosaurs.  But the most epic thing would be the bounce house water slide.  With soap.  Making lots of bubbles!  Kids screaming with excitement and encouraging all the adults to try it out.  Everyone slipping and sliding.  And then when the lights went down, we would put on the best fireworks show.

It would be EPIC.
What would you do for an epic playdate?

Hyundai Santa Fe hosted an Epic Playdate Weekend in April and my favorite post was from blogger Jordan Ferney of Oh Happy Day.

Epic Playdate in the Redwoods from Jordan Ferney on Vimeo.

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My Epic Playdate

What would you do on an EPIC PLAYDATE?



I know exactly what I would do.  Actually there are a million scenarios exploding in my mind.  But to start it off, I would fly my nephews in from San Antonio, Texas.  We miss them so much.  I can't help but feel close to them out of all the nieces and nephews because I am a mom of boys.  And my sons love their cousins.  C and I would pick them up from the airport, sign the boys out early from school and surprise them.  And then we would blindfold them and whisk them off to Vegas.  Just kidding!  I think we would stay at a swanky hotel in Hollywood, order in, eat out, walk on Hollywood Blvd. check out all the characters, do some shopping, sightseeing and hang out by the pool.  Doing all the fun tourist stuff just because we can!!!

The last time our nephews were out here together was in 2008.  We had a blast.  We enjoyed hanging out at their hotel in Anaheim because the pool was open 24 hours a day and it had the best view of Disneyland's fireworks without actually being at Disneyland.  The kids really let loose and so did we.  I wish we could do it all over again!



Hyundai is hosting their own Epic Playdate and it sounds AWESOME!!!  It is going down on April 27th from 9am-5pm in Santa Barbara, CA.  Some of the most popular bloggers on the planet will be hosting this epic event.  Would you like to camp on the beach with Dooce, BoingBoing and Oh Happy Day?  Perhaps a paint fight with Mighty Girl or eating ice cream sundaes till you can't no more with Girls Gone Child...  There will be hula hooping with How To Be A Dad!  Crafting with Oh Joy and Say Yes To Hoboken! (Okay I just totally made that one up because that would be dreamy for me)

Sounds fantastic, right?  You can enter to win a trip for four to Hyundai's Epic Playdate Weekend!  It is an invite-only event so you definitely should get in on this (I know I am) because there are FOUR GRAND PRIZE PACKAGES up for grabs!

To enter, you must have a Pinterest account and you must choose Clever Girls Collective when the form asks "How did you hear about us?"

I was selected for this opportunity as a member of Clever Girls Collective, and the content and opinions expressed here are all my own.