Today was Luke's birthday party. It was also the opening ceremony for their waterslide. Pete made the waterslide, the way that I built the cubby. It started small as a good idea and then just took on a life of it's own, getting bigger with every 'good' idea. It started with us standing there and saying; "We could put plastic down and the kids could use this as a waterslide." Then about four months, a backhoe, turf (yes really - turf!), a sprinkler system, a rubble drain, a dedicated water tank, a load of sand and about $500 worth of plastic inflatable sliding toys and the slide is finally finished. The kids had so much fun on the slide. Actually no one had as much fun as Pete did but the kids had a blast! It was a horrible wet, cold, rainy day but the kids didn't care and they stayed warm running up and down the slope. I had a blast watching (and trying to photograph) their happy faces as they came down the slide and hit the water pooling at the bottom!
So here are the photos of the kids coming down the slope and hitting the bottom. They were so happy! The other part of the party was pool diving for treasure. It was a fabulous idea, They lined the kids up and gave them goggles and threw a fortune in silver money. Then we all said Go, and they all dived for coins. The kids are all about the same level of swimming ability so they went for it until they were exhausted! Levi came out about $3.80 ahead, which for him is more than six weeks of allowance!
Today was Luke's birthday party. It was also the opening ceremony for their waterslide. Pete made the waterslide, the way that I built the cubby. It started small as a good idea and then just took on a life of it's own, getting bigger with every 'good' idea. It started with us standing there and saying; "We could put plastic down and the kids could use this as a waterslide." Then about four months, a backhoe, turf (yes really - turf!), a sprinkler system, a rubble drain, a dedicated water tank, a load of sand and about $500 worth of plastic inflatable sliding toys and the slide is finally finished. The kids had so much fun on the slide. Actually no one had as much fun as Pete did but the kids had a blast! It was a horrible wet, cold, rainy day but the kids didn't care and they stayed warm running up and down the slope. I had a blast watching (and trying to photograph) their happy faces as they came down the slide and hit the water pooling at the bottom!
So here are the photos of the kids coming down the slope and hitting the bottom. They were so happy! The other part of the party was pool diving for treasure. It was a fabulous idea, They lined the kids up and gave them goggles and threw a fortune in silver money. Then we all said Go, and they all dived for coins. The kids are all about the same level of swimming ability so they went for it until they were exhausted! Levi came out about $3.80 ahead, which for him is more than six weeks of allowance!
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