Snow Playground Fun!!

Last night is snowed and we didn't realize it until early this morning. Once we saw it Mom asked me and my sister Anna if we wanted to go play in it after we put on our snow stuff. we asked if we could play on the playground in it.


Now this was the first time that either of us had played on a metal playground in the snow, though we'd played on a wooden one before. When we got there we found that the metal was slippery.



One of the funnest things about that was when we slipped an fell on a bouncy bridge such as in the picture




After we had had some fun slipping and falling on the bridge I decided to try going down a tube slide that had snow at the end of it.



This is the result, which is ending up sitting just off the end of the slide with your legs covered in snow OR being launched a foot from the ending to land on your back in the snow




Now after we'd done that we started playing defend/attack the "kingdom" with snowballs, (i got Anna dreadfully mad during the process) than started playing spies until mom made us come back for hot chocolate.

LINE FREEZE!!!

Our water lines froze last night..

This morning we went outside and fixed it in this way.

First, dad bought an electrical heater cord, some electric tape, and some 1/8 in. thick insulation tape. Then, we went outside and dad plugged in the cord. Then using some electrical tape (cut by me) he taped the cord to our water hose.
After that, we took the insulation tape and wrapped it around both the water hose and the cord in a tight spiral all the way along it.

and that's it!!!

Now I now that it doesn't seem like I did much to help but if i hadn't helped cut the electrical tape dad would've taken a lot longer to put the heating cord on the hose. Because he would have needed to set the hose and the cord down so he could tear a strip of tape. And after that he would've needed to find his spot on the hose again...

As for the insulation tape we needed to wrap it around the hose&cord in a spiral. So, we needed to move the container for the insulation tape around the combo of the hose&cord. Because doing so would mean the tape stuff can be pressed tightly against the combinion of hose&cord. And can you guess who moved the container for the tape??? That's right, me.