Hot Child in the City

Two weekends ago, we decided to head out to McKinney for the Third Monday Trade Days.  It's basically a flea market with all kinds of fun junk to peruse.  We have had pretty good luck with finding some interesting treasures (aka other people's junk) in the past, and this time was no different.  I was ecstatic when I spotted an old 6-panel door just the right shade of blue/gray, which was the exact item which brought us out there to begin with.  We have all our meters and hook-em-up stuff for the cable, etc on the wall of our backyard patio...just not the eye candy I'm going for out there...view before the door...

...view after the door...

Much better, no?

We also purchased a cool old green window from an Army base in Arkansas that is being shut down; a few old blue Mason jars; some new house numbers; and an old screen that used to cover a transom window.  I don't know why, but I have an addiction to old windows.  I think they make a funky display on the wall and bring interesting dimension to an otherwise dull space. 

Nicky was rewarded for being such a champ and walking the entire flea market with a "train" ride...Momma and Daddy rode too...kinda fun!

Anyway...it was about 100 and hell degrees outside...no exaggeration...that's what the temp on the car told us.  We were all sweating profusely by the time we got back to the vehicle to load up our riches that we barely had enough power to get everything in, much less ourselves.  Kris started the car to attempt to cool it off some while we maneuvered the the door inside - of course, this was futile seeing as though the door was way too long and had to hang out the back window, thus causing all the air conditioning to be sucked out as we drove down the road.  Somehow as we were loading everything into the car we managed to lock the keys in the car with it running.  Luckily the back window was open, but this meant that one of us would have to unload all our new finds, climb in and unlock the doors.  Of course, we turned to the shortest one in our group, the Russky, and immediately squeezed his little person inside.  The little guy must have sensed our stress because he freaked out and didn't want any part of the situation.  I'm sure passers-by were having a good laugh at the sweaty parents screaming at their kid inside the car.  "Unlock the door Nicky!  Pull the handle!  It's on the door Nicky!  No...not the back of the seat!  THE DOOR!!!"  Nicky frantically searched the inside of the car for the lock/door handle.  I know he knows where they are...and you would think most kids would think this quite the adventure.  Not ours.  Panic and terror were apparent all over his sweaty little face as he hysterically tried to rescue us.  "i don't want to!  noooo!  you do it daddy!  i scared!"  "You HAVE to!  We can't go home if you don't do it!" 

Our little hero finally pulled through and we were saved from melting on the hot pavement.  We  re-loaded all our purchases, wearily climbed in the vehicle, and set off in search of lunch.  As we sailed down the road, a woman in an SUV pulled up along side us and motioned for me to roll down my window.  Afraid of the worst (like we had a flat or something) I obliged, only to be informed that Benson, the latest addition to Nicky's menagerie, was hanging onto our back bumper for dear life!  As you can imagine after looking death in the face, Benson hasn't left Nicky's side!

After re-fueling our bellies, we decided it was WAY to hot to do anything but head over to Gina's house for a dip in the pool.  Even that didn't cool us off!  The water was so warm, I turned her outside shower on and sprayed us all off with the nice cold water.  Kris had the great idea to put ice in the pool, so see how long it would take to melt...

...turns out, ice melts pretty darn fast when put into 92 degree water!  The best idea of all came from Gina turning on the water which fills the pool (thus turning the pool into an infinity pool it got so full!) - it was nice and cool...if you stood right in front of it...

Oh well...what we lacked in being cooled off, we made up for in good company and pure laziness!