One thing I love to do is check out event calendars for places around us or places we go to often, just to see if there's something fun we could do that we didn't know about. I aim to look more down South since I'd love to explore more South than we usually do. I was looking at the Shops at Riverwood and saw they were doing a Beach Party this week. Even though it would be on our usual Family Movie Night, I thought it sounded fun (plus we just saw a movie yesterday). I asked the kids if they'd be interested in going over a movie and they said sure, it sounded fun.
Unfortunately, this week our neighbor reached out to Larry to say he had something come up and the mom was out of town so he wondered if we'd be around in case their boys needed anything. He didn't say they needed to be at our house, but he just wanted to know someone was nearby just in case. Larry told him we'd be here and then I reminded him we had the Beach Party plans. We were going to go back to our movie night plans, but the kids were just so excited about this party, that I thought "what if we just bring the Beach Party to our home?"
After doing our Free Frazil Friday run, we came home and inflated our pool and filled it up so that the water could heat up a little in the afternoon sun. I also remembered we got a shaved ice maker for Christmas so why not also make those?
After dinner we got everything set up. We plugged in our splash pad things, had our leftover popcorn from the movie we went to yesterday, and even made some s'mores. One neighbor boy came over to play, the other one only came over for dinner and then decided to go back home. We played some music and just had a lot of fun outside.
The kids had an absolute blast! In fact, they said they'd be okay if we gave up more movie nights for something like that, haha. I'm just glad it was such a hit (the neighbor boy didn't want to leave). I love our movie nights, but I think it's fun to do something different every once in a while.
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