Slip and Slide

I have officially become an insomniac, I cant get to sleep before 3 AM and this has been going on for about a month now. Its pretty awful but when I cant sleep my brain is on overload and sometimes I think of things that just make me laugh my butt off. So the other night this was the case and I wanted to make sure I had the memory written down because it was SOOO funny.

Summer semester 2005 I lived in a house in Rexburg, I had some BORING roommates (besides Steph). It was a hot day and I thought it would be so much fun to build a slip and slide in the front yard. I went to wal mart and bought a painters tarp and then went back and set it up. Meanwhile Steph and I coated ourselves with crisco butter and were all ready to go. When we went outside it was a little windy and the tarp was blowing around so the water wasn't staying on. I immediately thought that it needed stakes. We didn't have any so I figured butter knives would do, we could stab them in at an angle and it would hold just fine. So I proceeded to "stake" the tarp down.

Then it was time to test it out. I went flying down and it was SOO much fun, then Steph went and launched down into the street. Then I went again and I launched right into the stakes and I felt my stomach getting sliced open, the first thing I thought was CRAP my swimsuit got sliced off and Im going to stand up exposed. By this time we had a crowd so I was terrified to stand up. I checked myself and my clothes seemed intact so I just grabbed myself and ran in the house to look at the damage. I had sliced a good 6 inch cut into my abdomen. It hurt but man was that funny! The slip and slide was a hit, it was sooo much fun and it worked really well minus the butter knives.