Today I'm taking the kids to some water slides in Pleasanton. Since I'm at home with the kids this summer (like the last two summers), it feels like the summertime of my childhood, except that the Oakland summers are sucky cold and the San Jose/Los Gatos summers were hot!
That's why today we are headed East to find the heat and slide on our butts and have fun! I'm reminded of the summers playing for hours in my parents' pool in Monte Sereno and also going back to Ruby Avenue when we used to make whirlpools and "tidal waves" in the doughboy pool in the backyard. Here we are enjoying the summer. I imagine I'm looking at Nancy about to do a handstand or summersault or something. Those were the days and those are the memories that I cherish and relive while playing with my kids in the water in the summertime. Doesn't Ned look chill?
