From tots to teens, McFee Splash Pad a sure heat-beater
Scores of youth from all around enjoy cooling waters
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A group of kids in the packed McFee Park get dumped on by one of the park’s Splash Pad water bucket attractions. - Photos by Brandon L. Jones
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Caroline Shorter enjoys getting soaked. - Photos by Brandon L. Jones
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Twins Bailey and Quincy Wertz — down from Richmond, Virginia, to visit their grandparents — are hard at play with new pals James Turner and Ella D’Angelo at the Splash Pad in Farragut’s McFee Park Saturday, June 15. - Photos by Brandon L. Jones
When you’re under a heat dome that nearly encompasses a quarter of the country — or at least will soon according to popular news and the feel of stepping outdoors — there are really only a handful of ways of really keeping cool. And kids are far better at it than adults.
Such was evident Saturday, June 15, at the Splash Pad in Farragut’s McFee Park, where a load of kids splished and splashed the day away.
Now, genuine concern is being avoided here, just for anybody who wants to really knit-pick the particulars of serious temperature woes. The objective here is to highlight that kids fare far better at getting dressed to get absolutely-serious-fun-time-soaking-wet-drenched than adults, who simply try and look cool while dodging getting wet as kids run about, making staying dry impossible.
At least that was observed at the park, the welcoming refuge from the day’s otherwise nagging heat.
One parent tried to look cool while his kids took every opportunity to give him hugs they’d otherwise avoid like the plague because they’d just gotten soaked by a bucket of water, one of the more popular attractions here, and wanted to come spread the love.
Kids playfully (but literally) will push one another out of the way for a chance to have these buckets, surely 15 feet in the air, drop their payloads on them.
Kids sometimes seem to think of cooler, brighter things than their parents, running around with the water guns those older should’ve brought, the hat the parents should’ve worn, and a change of clothes.
It would be easy for parents to wonder where in the world their children are amongst all the others blending together.
But they make it look so fun.
Most of the parents probably would admit they walked away looking the part of the fool who simply chauffeured them and gave them a chance to be the kids they are while they are just enjoying a little splash in the cool water on a hot spring day before, hopefully, going to take a nap.
And the older folks, the chauffeurs, hopefully catching one, too.
