Ultra-cool blogging family meets old-school fun

This past Saturday we went to Chau-Ram park in Oconee County. We'd never been, never heard of it actually until we did some searching on the internet. I forgot my camera and as we were walking around John said, "How will you ever write about this on your blog without your camera to take pictures?" So that's how we think now... we find stuff to do on the internet and then think about what we're going to put on our blog. Weird.

Had a great time. Stuck feet in the water and yes, then "fell" IN the water. Hiked a bit and climbed rocks. And slid on this:


I couldn't believe we found an old metal slide (and yes, apparently somebody else thinks it's cool too, since I was able to find a picture of it on the internet!). And it was tall. The kids had so much fun and never saw such a slide before. One of them said, "this is a slide you can actually play 'smush the watermelon' on and have FUN". (A quick search on Google reveals to me that this is not a well-known game... one person, the "watermelon" sits at the bottom of the slide while the other players, with legs split over the side of the slide push themselves down as fast as they can and try to knock the watermelon off the end and stay there as more players keep sliding down behind. It is a game which doesn't work well on slow-sliding plastic slides or slides that have a several foot tunnel at the top to protect kids from falling and do prevent you from hanging your legs over the side). Suffice it to say, I like the old slides best. And old, swings too (you know the kind with long chains for faster and higher swinging and hard seats that don't squeeze your bottom). Next time I'll bring the wax paper and show the kids how to slide super fast.