Only in Ireland

will you find a theme park for kids centered around... potato crisps.

Took Luca to Tayto Park today for a birthday party.
The weather was once more stunningly good (5th day in a row!) and the place was teaming with activity when we got there.

Inside the enclosure, there were hundreds of kids and their overheating (and overeating in a lot of cases) parents.

There were many cases of binge-tanning (cram it in while the sun shines) and I saw a few babies in buggies on the verge of being burned to a crisp (in keeping with the Tayto park theme).

The birthday party coordinator took us through the mini zoo. We just missed the Amur tigers being fed. A pity, since I am left to wonder how the mighty felines manage to open their bags of crisps, and which flavour is their favourite. Cheese and onion or salt and vinegar?

Anyway, besides milking parents for all they're worth, Tayto manage to manufacture 2 million individual packets of crisps a week.

The highlight for Luca and me was the round trip on the zip cord at the end. Twelve euros well spent it was. I had to change my underwear afterwards though.

Good thing that they were selling Mr Tayto boxer shorts in the souvenir shop.

Tayto Park is a proud sponsor for the Irish Society for the Prevention of Juvenile Obesity


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