Kim and I lamented for years that whenever we would take the kids to a hotel or even the cottage, they would jump on the beds. It was their “gymnastics” routine, or so we were told. Well, to be fair, it was pretty much just the younger two who would leap on to, off of, and on the bouncy mattress until it it was little more than a heap of rumpled bedding. Which for a couple of neat-niks like us made bedtime a bit more of a chore than we might have hoped.

Had it only occurred to us to snap a few photos, we might have launched the current Internet craze years earlier. I give you BedJump.com, a site where people have photographed themselves and their friends in all manner of bed-bounced airborne poses in hotels all over the world.

Many photos look much like what I remember the kids doing:

While others are pretty cleverly done:

I’m thinking maybe we should see if we could get them back into this habit and cash in on our fleeting 15 minutes of fame…