Each kid gets about 15-20 minutes of instruction, with dedicated professionals, before the whole group is allowed to begin shooting arrows at the bull's eye targets from a distance of five feet. They allow ages eight and up because experience shows that they can usually listen and maintain focus in a safety conscious way. The owner of the place confided to me that they've never had an accident during a kid's party, but there's no reason to want ours to be the first. A bonus: the Carvel near the archery place makes cakes with bull's eye decorations, and they deliver. So we booked it.
I commented about this in my Facebook status and got a whole slew of entertaining feedback. Various friends wanted to know whether we would also be going to the rifle range or sky diving. One was kind enough to send me a graphic of a kid with an arrow through his head. Another tried to tell me that everything would be OK as long as I didn't have my son place an apple on top of his noggin, a la the legend of William Tell. Yet another said she'd be very happy to accompany us bungee jumping, as long as there would indeed be pizza and cake afterwards.
The clincher came yesterday. We were all in the living room with the TV on, and a commercial for the archery place aired. Naturally, Son #2 was excited. Guess what the very next commercial advertised? A fencing academy. My son's Cheshire Cat grin spread across his face. My parting shot? "I didn't hear them mention birthday parties." Whew.
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you are insane !!!!!
Our next-door neighbor had a birthday party at an archery place, it was pretty cool. The owner's son was about our boys' age (I think this was when Ben and the next-door boy were 11), but he was amazing with the bow and arrow, could shoot moving targets dead-center. Too bad the place closed up within a year - bad location I guess. Have fun!
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