This place is A-mazing.
From the walking in the front door to the 7+ hours later when you leave, the entire place is designed to encourage learning for kids, through role play activities. There’s over 90 professions that kids can try out within a real economy. They earn Kidzo’s with every profession they complete, and they have to pay out money for either thing they want to buy, do or for important things like car insurance and getting your drivers license. And, while parents are allowed into the facility, we’re not allowed into any of the activities – we can wait outside and watch threw the windows. They get to do it all on their own. So awesome.
The day we were there, there were over 1500 people in the facility. While it was busy and there were lineups for some of the professions, it’s also a huge place with so much to see and do. Here’s a few of the pics from that day. 7 hours wasn’t even enough. There were things Rohan didn’t get to do because there wasn’t enough time. Crazy.
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- Rohan at college!
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- Getting his eyes checked for his drivers licence
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- Insurance required before you can drive
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- Getting his “first” cell phone
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- Entrace into the secret agent training
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- He’s got his rubber gloves on …
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- Rohan’s in the background as a surgeon
Here’s a few of the other professions.
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- CSI’s collecting evidence
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- Fire truck coming – clear the road!
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- Police and fire working together to put out the fire at the hotel
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- This dude’s waiting to get his teeth checked
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- Flight simulator for pilots and training for cabin crew
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- This is the front check in – for the day. This is where you pay and get your money to start you off for the day.
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- Newspaper
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- Beauty salon
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- Mechanic shop
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- Cooking school – and the window washers are keeping the windows clean!
All in all an awesome day. Now we need to figure out a way to bring this to Canada…. 🙂
