When you don't have a pool. This is the south and let's face it, the summers are miserably hot. I'm pretty sure if you go outside in the summer and you don't have a pool you turn into beef jerky. It's so hot the homeless make signs that say, "Will work for shade." So the following is what have we done since we don't have a pool:
* Water Balloons
* The Brooks Museum is free on Wednesday. It has an art studio and kids can create projects to take home from 10:00 AM until noon. The Brooks is located right by the Memphis Zoo. In the summer, you can put your kids in their swimsuits and swim in the fountains. This is an especially fun thing for us because it just feels so wrong. It's a white trash activity at it's best. I wonder if they chlorinate the ponds? Oh, I shouldn't even let my mind wonder about those things.
* The Memphis Zoo
* Lichterman Nature Center has a couple of air-conditioned buildings. A good place to go if you just want to get out of the house for a short time. They have a lot of walking trails but it is just too hot in the summer.
* Play Red Light/ Green Light using the water hose. You spray the person you catch moving after you've called red light.
* If you're not OCD you could go to the library. We choose the bookstore instead. There is just something about holding a book that has been checked out over and over again by strangers. You have no idea where those things have been.
*Run through the sprinklers. I can't wait until we get up a fence. There is something unsettling about a grown woman running through the sprinklers. I mean...I can imagine. For the neighbors, that is.
*Put a sprinkler under the trampoline and jump. This one is just for the kids. If you read my kegel post you know exactly what I mean.
* Pray one of your friends that have a pool will invite you over.
* Paint birdhouses.
* Drive in movie. There is a Malco Drive in on Summer Ave.
* Slip and Slide. Yep, we really need to get on that fence.
* Watazumi
* Go to the Apple Store. Your kids can play on the iPads while you shop around. Next door is the Teavana store. Cruise through and sample the teas.
* Lichterman Nature Center has a couple of air-conditioned buildings. A good place to go if you just want to get out of the house for a short time. They have a lot of walking trails but it is just too hot in the summer.
* Play Red Light/ Green Light using the water hose. You spray the person you catch moving after you've called red light.
* If you're not OCD you could go to the library. We choose the bookstore instead. There is just something about holding a book that has been checked out over and over again by strangers. You have no idea where those things have been.
*Run through the sprinklers. I can't wait until we get up a fence. There is something unsettling about a grown woman running through the sprinklers. I mean...I can imagine. For the neighbors, that is.
*Put a sprinkler under the trampoline and jump. This one is just for the kids. If you read my kegel post you know exactly what I mean.
* Pray one of your friends that have a pool will invite you over.
* Paint birdhouses.
* Drive in movie. There is a Malco Drive in on Summer Ave.
* Watazumi
* Go to the Apple Store. Your kids can play on the iPads while you shop around. Next door is the Teavana store. Cruise through and sample the teas.
*Make a human size bird's nest. Don't worry the water was really close by at all times. My kids are creative...if nothing else.
Well, there is less than three short weeks before the kids head back to school. We have a few more things on our list that we want to do. A stupid stomach bug has kept us in this week. So if you're running out of things to do I hope our list will give you some ideas.
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