We are slowly melting in the heat of the summer and our last hope relies on the AC’s. I really don’t want to know how would I survive without it. Anyway, this is a hot summer (if you don’t live on the North Pole) and we are doing our best to cool ourself . Yesterday I read an article about the hot days of summer so I decided to share with you the best 20 summer representing photos.

on July 12, 2011, as temperatures soared to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degree Fahrenheit). (Reuters/Ognen Teofilovski)

A surfer rides a wave at Watergate Bay on July 14, 2011, near Newquay, England. (Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Yasmin Bolden, 7, has mud washed off her after a mud contest at the Wet and Wild Water Week Day Camp, Tuesday, July 12, 2011, at the Ruffner Mountain Nature Center in Birmingham, Alabama. (AP Photo/The Birmingham News, Tamika Moore)

A boy slides down a water chute in a water park in Mogyorod, near Budapest, on July 9, 2011. Temperatures reached 36 degrees Celsius (96.8 degrees Fahrenheit) during the weekend in Hungary. (Reuters/Laszlo Balogh)

A pigeon refreshes itself at a fountain on a hot summer day in Madrid on June 25, 2011. (Dominique Faget/AFP/Getty Images)

Children play in a giant lake of mud during Wayne County’s 2011 Mud Day event at Nankin Mills Park, on July 12, 2011, in Westland, Michigan. 20,000 gallons of water are mixed with 200 tons of topsoil at the annual event. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

A man reads a newspaper as he swims in the salt waters of Tus lake in Russia’s Khakassia region, about 370 km (230 miles) southwest of the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, on July 15, 2011. Russians from different regions annually arrive at Tus lake rich with curative black and blue mud to live in a camp, bathe in the bitter-salty water and smear themselves with mud, which they see as a healing remedy. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)

A boy jumps into the Dambovita river with empty plastic bottles around his waist for flotation, in Bucharest, Romania, on a hot day, on July 14, 2011. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda)

The sun sets on the horizon overlooking 42nd street as “Manhattanhenge” occurs in New York on July 13, 2011. The event happens twice a year, when the Sun aligns at dusk, setting streets aglow with rays of sunlight flowing through New York City from west to east. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images)

A resident runs up a flooded stairway as stormwater pours into an underground garage amid heavy rainfalls in Chengdu, Sichuan province, China, on July 3, 2011. (Reuters/China Daily)

Competitors swim in the Seine River during the Paris Triathlon competition in Paris, France, on July 10, 2011. (AP Photo/Lionel Cironneau)

Braxton Barton, 3, catches a stream of water in his face at Macklanburg Park in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, on Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Oklahoma City set a record for most triple digit days in the month of June. (AP Photo/The Oklahoman, Bryan Terry)

A giant dust storm covers Phoenix, Arizona, Tuesday, on July 5, 2011. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher)

Andre Rivera, 6, from Puerto Rico, stops to cool off in the Fort Worth Stockyards in Texas, on July 11, 2011. (AP Photo/The Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Max Faulkner)

Phoenix Fire fighter Tony Reiter dumps a helmet full of water over his head during a fire that destroyed Fiesta Asadero y Taqueria in Phoenix, Arizona, on June 27, 2011. This was the hottest day of the summer so far with a high of 115 degrees. (AP Photo/The Arizona Republic, Rob Schumacher)

Mike Cox of Sherman, Illinois, positions a large fan and specially designed water hoses to cool his Standardbred trotting filly named “Master Charge It”, on July 11, 2011, at the Illinois State Fairgrounds in Springfield, Illinois. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman)

Visitors play in an artificial wave pool at Tokyo Summerland in Akiruno, near Tokyo, on July 10, 2011. (Reuters/Yuriko Nakao)

People cool off in fountains in front of the Eiffel Tower, on June 27, 2011 in Paris as the city sweltered under a heatwave. (Thomas Samson/AFP/Getty Images)

Buyan, a male Siberian brown bear, is given a shower by a zoo employee in his enclosure at the Royev Ruchey zoo in Russia’s Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, on July 1, 2011. (Reuters/Ilya Naymushin)

Children swim in Purity Lake in Madison, New Hampshire, near the town of Freedom, on July 3, 2011. (Reuters/Brian Snyder)