PICKING OUT A POOL AND GETTING IT HOME , NOT AS EASY AS IT SOUNDS

Saturday was a really fun day . We had our first tag sale of the season and we watched the grandchildren swim in their new pool. The day we brought the pool home is one that we will remember and smile everytime we think about it. We went last weekend to Walmart where there was a choice of 3 different size plastic pools. The smallest was really too small for 2 active children so we looked at the medium size. It really was the same size as the third pool but the third pool had something extra. A SLIDE .

We asked the kids which they wanted and naturally they said the one with the slide. We thought we had everything under control and all agreed that the one with the slide was the winner. Boy, were we ever wrong. Daddy carried the pool through the store to the checkout struggling past shoppers who just looked and smiled a knowing smile , probably remembering the days that they were doing the same thing. Daddy and Mommy had the van and Uncle had his Toyota 4 Runner.

Thank goodness we were parked near each other. We took everything from the back of the van and guess what , the pool would not fit. We took it over to the Toyota and it would not fit in that either. The kids were getting concerned as were the adults, it was getting late and we had to get the pool home. Daddy went into Walmart to get bungie cords. People who walked by us in the parking lot were either staring or smiling at us trying to not laugh. Daddy came out and we secured the pool on the roof. Every got into their assigned car and we were off.

We had to go down a small hill to get home . Because the pool was round and because air could get under it , as we watched in horror the pool began to lift up from the roof it was attached to. It looked like a flying saucer getting ready to fly away. The kids started to yell, "don't let our pool blow away." We were in the van behind the Toyota and started to get nervous hoping that it wasn't going to blow away. Finally we drove into the driveway where the kids insisted on making sure the pool made it to their back yard. We got home and started to talk about it , and the more we talked the more we laughed.

The looks on my grandchildren's faces as they walked up the 3 steps in the pool and sat on the curved slide was priceless. All in all we are very glad that we picked out the larger pool. We would not have had half the fun with the smaller one , while creating a memory at the same time.