Friday, June 27, 2008
Summer Things
I love summer. It's blazing hot outside, the ice cream truck comes by every single day and my nieces and nephews are out of school, which means we have more time to play with all our favorite summer Things.
The pool is a favorite spot at this time of year and our Motorized Bumper Boat is my top pick for summer Things again this year. It's revved up version of a pool float that goes about two miles per hour. It's also very heavy duty--it just bounces right off the sides of the pool. We have three of them now, so we can run them into each other while battling it out with our water cannons. It's battery operated, easy to put together and comes with an electric air pump.
When your skin gets all wrinkly from being in the water too long, you need some Thing to play with on dry land, like a high performance radio controlled boat. The Hydrostorm can hit speeds of up to 20 miles per hour. It has twin propellers and an electric motor that runs off a rechargeable Ni-CD 7.2V battery. 
If you prefer a natural environment over the swimming pool, take along this Radio Controlled Fishing Boat. You can actually catch fish with this Thing. It includes tackle that you attach to the boat. Set it on the water and just watch the bobber--when it dips, steer the boat to shore see what you caught. It handles fish up to two pounds. It even has prop guards to help prevent tangles in line or weeds. I can't help but buy any Thing that makes fishing easier and more fun.
There's nothing worse than losing track of your drink while you're out in the hot sun. Our buyers found the perfect solution: The Remote Control Beer Pager. It's a coozie that lights up and belches when you press the remote control, allowing you to follow the sound to your beer or soda. It has a range of about 60 feet and even works through walls. It's great for keeping your drink cold and for getting lots of laughs.
For fun on the golf course, we have this gag golf ball. Now this Thing is funny. I used it on my dad last weekend. While he was looking for his putter, I replaced his golf ball with this remote control ball. He was just about to make an easy putt when I hit the remote and made the ball roll away. The look on his face was priceless and we made him take a stroke for missing the shot. Lucky for me, I got my sense of humor from him--anyone else might have come after me with that putter. To keep cool while playing outside, I got two of these Safari Solar Hats -- one for me and one for Dad. It gives a constant cooling breeze to your forehead with a solar or battery-powered fan. It's lightweight, comfortable and weatherproof so it's great for boating, fishing, golf or any other outdoor activity.
Two more of my favorite Things for summer are the Geyser Tube and the Marshmallow Shooter -- they'll both give you a gooey excuse to head back to the pool or sprinkler. You've probably seen the dozens of demonstrations of the soda geyser on the Internet. 
It's a remarkable Thing that works with Mentos candy and diet soda. You just put 6-8 Mentos in the plastic tube, put the tube over the mouth of a two-liter soda bottle, pull the trigger and run to get out of the way of the sticky eruption. The marshmallow shooter is an air gun that rapid-fires mini marshmallows. It's a pump-action shooter, so the faster you can pump the handle, the stickier your victim gets. My nephew is getting pretty fast with it -- he can paste me with marshmallows and reload before I can even empty my gun.I don't know how people think of these Things, but I'm sure glad they do. Summer just wouldn't be the same without them.
See you next week,
Bobby
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