Happy Hollow is a Happy Place!
Jun 16th, 2008 by susan
Yesterday (Father’s Day) we took the girls down to Happy Hollow, a fairytale land in San Jose. We started the day feeling a little bit gloomy and morose as it was so foggy and cold and depressing in SF, but once we decided to head out of the fog our day blossomed before us like a beautiful flower and we had the best time!
Happy Hollow is paradise for a two-year old. I think that possibly our daughter had the MOST fun she has ever had, and she has had a lot of fun times in her life! (Hard not to when your whole life revolves around playing and “me” every day!).
She rode the sea-life carousel (3 times), the mini-horse carousel (7+ times), the “Dragon” train (3 times), the fire truck and police car ride (2 times), stuffed her face with pizza and french fries and apple juice (yes, we are THOSE parents who let our kids eat non-locally-grown and non-organic food from time to time and <gasp> even a little juice!), climbed all of the stairs and slid down every slide, explored the crooked house, fed the goats and donkeys and cows and more at the zoo, and just all in all had a wonderful day. And because she had so much fun, we of course did too!
There is something about watching your child laugh and dance and sing that just brings the biggest smile you can imagine to your heart… worth almost any price! And speaking of price, just what, you might ask, did this day of fun cost Mommy and Daddy? Answer: practically nothing! $18 for admission (2 adults, a 2-year-old, and an infant), gas down and back (which of course is no joke these days), an ICEE (because Daddy loves them), and $15 for pizza/french fries/sandwich…. Less than $50 for the whole day, which is less than we would spend on one breakfast out in San Francisco! We should create one of those MasterCard commercials….because the gleeful look on our daughter’s face when she rode the carousel and drove the fire engine ride all by herself was priceless.
Ahhhhh, good times, good times.
