I'm not sure why we didn't get to this pool more. (maybe because we were gone so much this summer!?) Kids were begging to go once and I had to call and find out when it closed. The last week it was open, we went on that Friday, Aug 21. It was a perfect sunny day and everyone enjoyed the 3 hours spent there.
Violet was all over the pool. Calvin could now touch up to the rope that separates the rest of the pool and the deep end. Both Violet and Calvin independently went down the slide many times. The walk up the steps is very cold and windy.
Vanessa could touch in parts of the main pool area, but I still made her wear her life jacket on "the other side of the rope" which separated the baby area from the main pool. Eli was ... how do I even describe him...CRAZY. He wanted to swim with no life jacket so he needed constant supervision. He wanted to go in the deep part where he couldn't touch so I held him and he wanted to push himself to the bottom of the pool and shoot himself up and have me catch him. Again, again! he yelled.
There was a 15 minute adult swim in the middle of the day so I "splurged" and got each kid a treat from the vending machine. Calvin and Violet snickers bars, and Vanessa licorice cherry bites, and Eli peanut m&ms.
Calvin told me it was the best day ever!
Fun in the sun - thanks for writing
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well they were certainly primed for pool play with all of their water antics at the lake...thinking back to Calvin's shy and tentative swimming lessons a few year back...they've come a LONG way so great you made sure (and Grandma Row even earlier) they were comfortable as well as safe in water so they could enjoy it so much...Glad Eli enjoys it too.
ReplyDeleteWill make for even more family fun down road.
Mom