Without dedicated bonding time, family members grow resentful of one another's bad habits, such as cheating at Monopoly and warming socks in the toaster. Preserve familial unity with today’s Groupon: for $15, you get an indoor play outing for four children ages 1–11 at Orb Family Fun Center in Chesapeake (a $39 total value). The outing includes the following:
- Four admissions (a $30 value)
- Four juice boxes (a $3 value)
- Four popcorns (a $6 value)
Youthful squeals and hoots echo across Orb Family Fun Center's 9,600-square-foot arena, drifting from a full spectrum of inflatable castles, slides, and bounce houses. Little lads and lasses wear down limitless energy reserves on a collection of clean and colorful obstacle courses, and toddlers scoot across the floor on plastic trikes and diminutive motorized rides. Parents maintain a close watch on their young explorers by putting their feet up at central picnic tables or accompanying kids throughout the facility. Intermittent breaks for popcorn and juice provide the energy needed to conduct marathon play sessions or shoo sugar-peddling cereal mascots, and simple games, including checkers, encourage mental activity.
Though Orb Family Fun Center sometimes offers discounts online, today's Groupon is still the best deal available.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Social Circles
Social circles are overlapping groups of friends, visually resembling a complex Venn diagram or a pile of snowmen dumped at a moderate height from a helicopter. Look for your own friendship overlaps with this guide to common social circles:
Acquaintances: This circle includes Internet-only friends, childhood dentists, and any relationship in which there is a tip jar sitting silently between you.
Relationship duties: Occasional well-wishing, store-bought "get well soon” cards, and mutual acknowledgement of inclement weather or upcoming holidays
Confidants: Consists of former desert-island reality-show castaways, first-name-basis stepparents, and roommates who have banded together to put out at least one actual fire
Relationship duties: Over-the-clothes backrubs, Christmas gift with a $30 limit, prefacing embarrassing anecdotes about them with the phrase "A friend of mine, let's call him—"
Besties: Includes secret summer-camp husbands, sisters who have ever held back your hair for any reason, and shoulder-trained rats
Relationship duties: Power of attorney, rights to redundant organs, and eventual shared grave plot or cryochamber
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