Our Pool Adventures

So we got the kids a pool last summer. One of the easy-set -up ones. Paid $200 bucks for it and justified it by thinking that we would get more than one year out of it......didn't happen! We got it out (finally) the other night. I spent about 2 hours scrubbing it out by hand with bleach......my OCD kicks in with the thought of germs. About 10:00 PM we inflated the top and started filling it with water. I went out at midnight to turn off the water and it was flat and the water was running all over the ground. That should make for a nice water bill!
The kids love the pool and we haven't been able to get to the Bluffton pool much this year so we decided to go ahead and get them another one. School is just 4 weeks away but they are getting to the "climbing the walls" phase of the summer. The novelty of nothing to do is wearing thin and I typically break up a minimum of 50 fights a day.
We set it up last night without any issue but I found a hole in it this morning and now the pump is freaking out.....grrrrr! At least it was 1/2-off since it's the "end" of the season.