Did anyone else play pogs in Elementary School??!! They were a big thing when I was in 5-6th grade. You had to have pogs to play out at recess with everyone. I don't totally remember how to play anymore, but we spent hours playing and collecting the coolest pogs!!
I was tetherball champion in Elementary School. Mainly because I as sooo tall compared to everyone else and I could hit it high and hard. I laugh so hard thinking back about that. We made our own tournament brackets at recess and everything.
Summer was just not the same without a super soaker. My brother and I got a new super soaker for Easter for at least 3 years in a row. There was always a new bigger and better model every year that we just had to have!!!! We had enough for the neighborhood. We had some awesome water fights!!
Yes... Yes... Yes for roller blades. Bikes were a big thing too, but roller blades were so much cooler. My friend Chad liked to build half pipes and jumps from wood he would con people out of if they weren't using it. He carried a ton of it home one time and had to make 3 trips just to get it all back to his house. It took time and engineering to make the jump, but it was pretty impressive when it was finished!! He was way better than me, but we had a blast!!
We also played a LOT of trampoline basketball in Junior High and High School. We would have 3v3 or 4v4 on the tramp playing basketball. We pulled the basketball hoop to the edge of the cement and then pulled the tramp up to the hoop. We had dunking and goal tending rules to make it fair, but really anything goes when you play trampoline basketball. We also had trampoline slam dunk contests. You would jump as high as you could and do your best dunk move coming down in the air... then we would score the dunks. We had points made up for each dunk move.... there were levels of difficulty too. My best trick was between the legs, behind the back, 360, reverse dunk!!! I tried it last summer and I could still do it! It took a couple trys, but I still got it!!:) It was always my little brother and the Petersen’s next door to us. Ruth and the boys... They made me tough!!
You can't forget about the sleep over’s on the trampoline. We would take our CD player outside and play the music real loud while we jumped on the tramp. We eventually went to bed and hoped the sprinklers wouldn't come on early in the morning and hoped Chad wouldn't come and play a prank on us. He lived next door and was notorious for playing pranks on the girls. He was very creative and a mastermind at pranks!!!!!
Life of a kid is the best!!!
