As everyone knows, we had this Monday off of school for Labor Day (yay!). The Sunday before, I got together with my cousins and other relatives at my cousin Madison's house in Hawthorne Woods, Illinois, for a family barbeque. Madison has a dad named Harry (also my cousin, not my uncle) who's a construction worker, and she happens to have a HUGE backyard with a giant hill in it. I will never fully understand how he came up with this idea, but i guess to Harry, giant backyard plus giant hill, equals giant slip n' slide. Each summer, the slip n' sllide has progressed. First it started out as just a long tarp with only a tiny pool at the end. The next summer the pool got a little bigger. And next year, even bigger. And bigger. And bigger. Until I arrived at Madison's house and saw this monstrosity. V ( that's supposed to be an arrow... and the people in the pool and sliding down are some of my cousins.) Now equipped with a pool deck, a latter, and a swimming pool that Is 7 feet deep in the deep end, the slip n' slide was a great way to end our summer. We slid down it all day: on our stomachs, on our backs, going backwards, on tubes, in 3-person trains, on our knees, you name it. Someone is bound to get hurt on it one of these days... but for now it's the very best way to cool down on a hot summer day.
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Maura
9/6/2012 10:33:47 am
That sound super fun! I like the pictures!
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Emily
9/7/2012 08:27:15 am
hahaha yeah i guess they do... lol but it's still a great picture
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Maura
9/7/2012 12:30:34 pm
true :D
Maura
9/6/2012 10:34:22 am
How did you get the writing there on the top picture, though? That looks cool :D
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Emily
9/7/2012 08:30:45 am
Oh i just pressed the add text button
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Maura
9/7/2012 12:30:57 pm
Cool, thanks :D
Fionna
9/7/2012 11:44:21 pm
OMG Emily this looks like the funnest thing in the world! I am so jealous! Haha you might have just given me an idea for my lake house! :)
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Marisa
9/9/2012 01:13:53 am
That's awesome, it looks like so much fun!
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Alyssa
9/9/2012 06:53:29 am
The slip'n'slide looks so cool! I wish I could slide down it!
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Nick
9/9/2012 09:25:02 pm
Awesome! that sounds so cool!
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Jackie
9/11/2012 10:14:09 am
Oh my gosh I wish I had cool cousins!! All of mine are in college or above! Looks like the coolest thing ever invented, can I come to their house? Slip 'n Slides are the bomb, and this one is the bomb TIMES 5!! I am sooo jealous, you have me thinking of ideas for my backyard....
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DLP
9/14/2012 03:45:45 am
That IS the coolest slip 'n slide I have ever seen!
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