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for once, i’m not quite ready for fall
By heather | August 31, 2009
When I look back at this summer, I will remember the Water Park. This year we sprung for season passes, so nearly every weekend we took our kids to splash around and people watch.
Given that when you’re at the water park everyone is literally letting it all hang out, it’s better than TV. Tattoos, piercings, scars, branding (you know where you burn yourself and make a disgusting scar shaped like your favorite frat or something equally stupid), ridiculously painful looking sunburns - you name it, it’s somewhere walking around the Water Park.
I did not know that they made string bikinis to fit woman that top 300 lbs, did you?
I had an little brush with skin cancer earlier this year, so I spent most of the time not actually in the water outfitted in hat, rash guard, towel around my legs, hiding in the shade. For the record, when dry, rash guards are the best thing ever to happen to post partum, semi-soft bellies.
When wet, they suck. Drippy and heavy, they are hot and will plaster themselves to you so that anything other than a six pack looks like a sackful of puppies under your shirt.
I have always been a water baby and a sun worshipper. It kills me to have to cover up, instead of soak it up but I do, mainly because I don’t get tan anymore I just get freckles. Ugh.
Last week when we were there, I spent a good 5 minutes laughing at Emily Kate practicing her squats in the water. Until she fell down, and a cloud of brown poofed up around her out her swim diaper. She wasn’t actually practicing squats. That right there is reason number one why you leave as soon as the chlorinated water isn’t sparkling anymore. It happens around 2pm on hot summer days.
Alex’s favorite thing to do is stand directly underneath a waterfall and let the water pound down on his head. Ironic, seeing as how he flips out at the mere mention of a shower at home. He’s big enough to go on many of the adult rides and always laughs his head off during the ride, but then when it’s over informs me, “I no liked that!”
On the kiddie rides, he somehow always manages to get the lifeguard to laugh which is amazing considering how many kids pass by them every day. Like the time when he tried to climb into the raft and was so excited he tumbled in head first and exclaimed, “Whoops!” Finally righting himself, he settled in and proclaimed, “Ready!”
Sodas and sunburns, the smell of chlorine, splashing, floating, yanking the kids up by the trunks when they fall face first into the water.
The last weekend of the summer is here. How did that happen?
Topics: Alex, EK, summer | 2 Comments »
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September 2nd, 2009 at 10:47 am
I know! We barely got to the beach at all this summer and now it’s practically over.
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September 2nd, 2009 at 8:58 pm
I’m with you — love the sun, love to soak it up… but stay under the shade a bit more these days. I love that your kids are water-kids!
Poopy pool diapers. It happens to us all!!