Swimming with Zombies

Not far from my house is a community center that has a HUGE waterpark... many slides, multiple pools, and on warm days there's not much room in the pool. Right next door is a lovely cemetary. You can literally read the writing on some gravemarkers from the top of one of the water slides...

My boys and I were driving by this area on Sunday, and one of them said that isn't it funny they built the waterpark next to the "dead people place" (yes, that's what we call it in our family)... then the other says "yeah, wouldn't it be funny if the dead rose from the grave as zombies and decided to take a swim in the pool?"... (They are big Evil Dead fans)

and then we launched into this string of funny zombie swimming movie concepts, including -

• kids show up at the pool in the morning and find a zombie finger floating in the pool (and then of course, Bill Murray comes out to fetch the floater)
• Scenes of zombies squealing with delight as they go down the big slide
• Guy zombies chcking out chick zombies in their bikinis.. rotting flesh and all
• Bruce Campbell shows up in a speedo and of course, his chainsaw strap-on .. and hangs out in the hot tub waiting for the sun to set.

Of course, all of the concepts were based on movies from my teen years.... that have somehow transitioned to my 15 year-olds' brains.... Caddy Shack, Cocoon, Porkies, Evil Dead, Dawn of the Dead... just a little glimpse into the car rides I share with my boys....