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 $10, you get an attraction-lovers package at Goofball Family Fun Center (a $20 value). The all-inclusive package features the following:
- Admission, which includes unlimited play on the toddler set, obstacle-course bouncer, and the jungle-room play set
- $5 Goofballs arcade card
- Three bumper-car rides for riders 6 or older or 42 inches tall
- Two hours of unlimited Laser Frenzy, bowling, and Wii
Thrill-seekers romp through Goofballs Family Fun Center's 12,000 square feet of indoor attractions, building camaraderie as they plunge down an inflatable obstacle course's slides, clamber through the Jungle Blaster room's tunnels, or compete in rounds of bowling, laser tag, and bumper cars. A Route 66–themed bowling alley challenges pin-strikers, and bumper cars twirl to music, whirl beneath lights, and slam into one another much like the crowd in a disco mosh pit. After triumphing on Wii games or conquering the arcade, guests of all ages can bob and weave between hiding spots in Laser Frenzy. The toddler play area unveils a haven for the younger-than-3 set to explore colorful slides and wheel and deal for animal crackers. Though not included in the price of this Groupon, famished revelers may nosh cheese pizza value meals ($4.99+) while full-fledged families or party-goers partake in a feast of one large pizza, two orders of bread sticks, and two regular-sized sodas ($16.99).
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The Groupon Guide to: Astronaut Training
NASA's manned shuttle program ended not because of a lack of interest on the part of astronauts but because so few people could complete the rigorous astronaut training process. Here's a look at the extreme tests given to would-be space jockeys:
Human Centrifuge: This giant man-spinner rotates thousands of times per minute to simulate the effects of the space shuttle accidentally getting caught in a giant centrifuge.
16-Minute Mile: Would be easy except that the astronauts have to race while simultaneously writing an essay-length evocation of the perfect sunrise
A Series of Riddles: To prepare for the riddles that the real space station will ask after it comes alive
Media Training: Helps returned astronauts face reporters even after learning the horrible truth that the back half of the moon is simply not there anymore
Forlornness Simulator: Not for space, where astronauts stay occupied with work, but for their return to Earth after the empty vastness of space has opened their eyes to human existence's overwhelming lack of meaning
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