Kidsville

A new children's recreational facility called Kidsville Playtown opened in Carlsbad last week, and Isabelle and I decided to check it out this morning. It's a pretty cool place - Isabelle had a ball!

It's a socks-only facility, so when you first walk in, there are cubbies to store your shoes. Then you enter the play zone, which starts out with an area sectioned off for kids two and under - it was filled with tons of infant and toddler toys, which Isabelle inspected one-by-one for the first 15 minutes.... and then she realized there was more to see.

When you leave the baby area, you basically find yourself looking at a large room with open space in the middle (which contains tables and chairs, and a racetrack of sorts where you can ride around in little cars), with smaller rooms along both sides. Each room has a different theme and different toys, including a costume room for kids to play dress-up; a "homemaker" room (for lack of a better word) with a kitchen set, toy vacuums and brooms, baby dolls and baby furniture, etc.; a pretend medical clinic; a pretend classroom; a construction room; a police and fire station; a princess room; and a grocery store. There is also a "couch potato" area for parents who want to chill out while their kids play, and a castle for older kids with slides, bridges, and climbing activities. All this for $10 per child, which is good for all-day admission.

Isabelle played so hard she was sweating when we left!

This entire wall was a chalkboard

She sat at this vanity and pretended to blowdry her hair


Playing with a cash register


She strapped a doll into this toy highchair and pretended to feed it


She took good care of her babies;
she strapped them into the bouncy seat and swing before we left.