Geometric Balloons

I was at a restaurant that had a feeling very smilier to Chucky Cheese, but for adults. It also seemed a little like Don Pablo's or Chevy's (Mexican restaurants), but I can't really figure out in what way. Anyway, while I was there, I wound up seeing Pat (former step-father) and Nick (Pat's son). The funny thing about seeing them there was that they didn't seem to be there together as a family. It was almost as if they didn't know the other was there. I think I passed Pat briefly, and I just remember him smiling pretty big and laughing while he greeted me. I didn't really have time to react to him, and if I had the time, I'm not sure what I would have done.

While I was looking around, I saw that lots of people had very large balloons, but they weren't normal balloons. These were really strange shapes. Most of them were huge (8 or 10 feet across/tall) and they were made of very odd geometric shapes like cylinders and tetrahedra. Most of them were groups of these objects. For example, there was maybe one that was a tetrahedra, and an inverted one running through it, and it had donut shaped tubes extending out from several surfaces. One of them looked a bit like the Emerald City of Oz, which was a bunch of towers all grouped together in a bundle. Most of these balloons were held down by four strings, one attached to each corner. Sometimes kids were running around with them, sometimes adults were, and other times they were anchored to tables (booth seats) while people sat there and ate.

Eventually there was some prize offered, depending on the balloon you had. This is actually when I saw Nick. He was sitting at a booth underneath a VERY large (60 or 80 inch?) television display that was suspended near the ceiling. Suddenly he disappeared and was on the screen very briefly while a news cast was telling about him being on a space station because of the prize he had won with his balloon. After a minute or two, he re-materialized there in his seat and looked all thrilled about his experience.

I think I started to ask him about it, and I decided that there was a possibility that he had been tricked. I knew that he had been teleported out and about somewhere, but I though that maybe he was just taken to a far off building somewhere and told that it was a space station. I think I asked him about this, and before he could even answer about it, I wound up thinking that if that were the case, he would have always had gravity, and somehow I knew that he had in fact been able to float freely around the place.