Splash Bomb

Since we decided to have a backyard party, I had an automatic excuse to upgrade our backyard waterfun equipment. We had the plastic baby pool that we got free in Montevideo, and the blow up pool we started using last summer, so I wasn't looking for just another pool. I looked into slip and slides, but those seemed geared toward older kids. In my "research" I kept coming across the Cannonball Splash Waterslide and decided it would work for us, even if the reviews were only so-so. It has been a big hit, although the weather has kept us from using it as much as we like. It has also survived a preschool birthday party, a 150 pound grown man and two incredible wind storms, so I would say it's pretty durable.

Here is how it looks at the beginning.

And here is how it looks after the ride.

And here is what happens in between.

After the kids woke up from naps on party day, we headed back outside since it had been such a nice day and the pools were almost hot by that time. Eli got his first dip in something other than a bath tub, and while he was not quite sure what to do or what to hold on to at first

it didn't take him long to figure it out.