Yesterday was the last day of School for Nick, we had Mass and were home by 11:00 a.m.
By 3:00 p.m. I already got the "I'm bored" line!! So we zipped to Wal-Mart to buy a slip n slide!
I would have been happy with the 2 lane slide, came with little inflatable boogie boards.. looked like fun, you could "race" your buddy. But Nick saw the 3D Shark Tunnel Slide, that includes a big inflatable shark mouth to slide under and a set of 3D swim goggles! So, of course we got that one -and a sprinkler- and headed home for some cool off time.
Get home, open the box, the plastic smells like terpentine and I get an instant headache (I'm very sensitive to smells, chemicals, etc.). So I yelled at Nick to get it outisde- we carefully placed it halfway up the small incline so that the kids could slide down the hill, argued about which way its supposed to lay.. and stake it in.
Next is the hose- we spend 1/2 hour looking for the garden hose, finally find that in a pile of spider webs under the basement stairs. Hose is all tangled up, finally get it untangled, hook it up to slide.. slide is upside down..
Flip the slide over, restake it, I think its ready to go.. I talked Nick into forgoing all the "blow up " parts till the next day since it had already taken an hour just to get that all set up! HA! They had fun, it was a little chilly, but the afternoon sun was still very warm. Even Keira got into the action, a little too cold for her, but something to burn time and keep them entertained!
Looks like I will have to come up with lots of stuff to keeps the kids entertained this summer! As long as its outside I'm okay with that!!
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