Yesterday, we planned to have ~K~’s birthday party. Granted, his birthday isn’t for another 2 months, but then again, the pool isn’t open in October either.
We did this last year and all went swimmingly. The weather was perfect. But as has been the theme here this summer, it was not to be this year.
The weather threatened, but looked like it might clear up, so at a late hour we decided to follow one of the lessons we learned from inclement weather. Simply put: Make the plan. Work the plan. Ignore the weather. So off we went to the pool.
The kids got about 15 minutes of pool time before it started thundering and they made everybody get out of the pool. By then the pizzas came and so we did pizzacakebirthdaypresents all together each lightning bolt let loose, tacking 20 more minutes to wait before we could reclaim the pool.
And then the sky let loose in a real thunder storm and pool time was over. For good. We ended bringing everybody back to the house to play.
And it turned out that the kids had more fun there anyway. At least that’s what they said when they left.
It wasn’t quite what we planned, but not a bad result.
