Back when I was a kid, a fun way to keep cool was a slip n' slide. We would put water flowing from a hose down a thin yellow plastic path that would lay on the grass. We would run really fast and slide down it to cool off. You would end up sliding into the grass with bumps and scrapes from hidden rocks under the plastic. It was fun in theory and then it got kind of painful. Our kids now have it made - say "goodbye" to thin yellow plastic and "hello" to blow up water fun slide. It was so hot this weekend in Pittsburgh and the kids enjoyed what they coined the "water castle." They didn't want to get out.
