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Happy Independence Day, friends! (All my stats peeps should enjoy this joke! Yesterday, Megan and I chose a stats and holiday pun for our pub trivia team name: the Independence Samples.)
You guys are blowing me away! I love getting to know you guys more and more! The prompt for today is brought to you by Steph, another IRL friend who I met at a bachelorette party at a gay club. (True story!) Anyway, the prompt for today is...
[Day 4]: What's your favorite childhood memory?
I have a couple of favorite childhood memories, but I'll tell this one:
My parents had this huuuuge play structure with a large metal slide on the front. My dad and grandfather built this the weekend I was born (I think? Is that right, Mom?). From someone who has always been rather short amongst others, I thought this jungle gym was the coolest thing ever: it was huge, sturdy, and had a slide, rope ladder, pole, and sand pit (among other things). Anyway, during the summers, when it got warm enough (remember, I grew up in Washington state, so "warm" is a relative term), my brother and I would take a long hose, pull it up to the top of the slide, twist it around the railing, and then turn on the hose so that the long slide turned into a water slide.
I credit my brother for this idea (because older brothers have the coolest--if not unsafe--ideas, and I don't think I was creative enough to come up with this without the guidance of a rebellious brother), but it was childhood genius. Who needed to drive an hour to a waterpark when you could make your own at home? We spent many a summer afternoon creating large mud puddles at the bottom of the slide because we had used so much water on our slide.
[Updated at 9:45AM: My Aunt Heide sent me a picture of this at the POGG. By my bathing suit, I'm pretty sure I'm 6 here. Thanks Aunt Heide!]
[Updated at 9:45AM: My Aunt Heide sent me a picture of this at the POGG. By my bathing suit, I'm pretty sure I'm 6 here. Thanks Aunt Heide!]
That's one of my favorite childhood memories (and an awesome shoutout to my brother Scott, my antagonist of the 90s)! What about yours? Link up your memories here:
24 comments:
We tried that with our plastic blue and red slide but it didn't work that well and then we kept getting hose pipe bans so we couldn't do it :(
We did have quite a few water fights and that was enough for us
That water slide sounds awesome! We never had a playset, but we loved water fights in the summer time!
That sounds awesome, haha. I definitely would have been too afraid as a child to get on that slide.
I remember the mud puddles at the bottom of the slide from rain. But this is awesome! Glad it was water and not cooking oil. Ha!
we definitely tried to make things similar to this as kids. I just needed an older brother to make it actually work (i'm the oldest) lol. great memory!
That sounds AWESOME! Having a play structure alone is cool. But turning it into a water slide? I'm jealous!
haha that sounds like so much fun! Memories like that are the best :)
oh my gosh that sounds awesome!!!! (& definitely something I would never let my nephew do!)
That is awesome!! I wish I had thought of something like that when we had a jungle gym.
Haha! That must have been fun! Leave it to kids to think of fun ways pass the time away.
Haha, so cute. Leave it to Scotty to think of something fun AND dangerous for his little sister :)
We used to put our slide into a pool so we would slide down it and land right into the pool. What a bunch of rebels we are huh? Great photo too!! So cute!!
Sooooo funny!! I grew up in Oregon and Washington as well, so there were many days spent like this, when it was warm. :) I love the photo too!
Yes...your Dad, Grandfather and neighbor Tom built the "fort" the day you came home from the hospital. This picture was taken in 1990, so you are only 4 years old! You kids loved it when I would pack a sack lunch so you could eat outside high on the top of the fort. Seems to me we flung water balloons off the top during one of the POGG. LOVED the fort!
You were so cute! =)
Thats a great memory <3
How fun, I remember creating our own slip and slide on a hill instead of buying one.
To be young again.
I probably have a million memories from your backyard... the waterslide of course, in addition to playing school, setting up tents and your cats bringing them down on our heads, spying on the neighbors.... your backyard was awesome.
Love your responses! i was hoping to partake in the questions/ linking up, but I've been out of town. I read your blog all the time though I don't always comment. Love the childhood photo!!
I love the picture and the creativeness. What a great memory.
I remember my sister and I doing that exact same thing. We lived in FL so to go down the metal slide during the summer we had to put water on it or we would burn our butts :) I too use to love the big mud puddle at the end of the slide!!
UM, your memory/childhood sounds like so much fun! Maybe I'll steal it and try to convince myself it was my own :-p Haha.
Also, can I just say how much I love the fact that your mom has a blog?! So fantastic!
Water, slide, mud... sounds like a glorious time!
Your brother sounds awesome! Unfortunately my brother was younger than me so I was always able to tell when his ideas were unsafe and then I wouldn't have any fun with them. That picture also looks great!
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