Problems at the Pool

Well, today Garrett & I had swimming lessons, but things didn't really go as planned.

We drove down to the pool. Now, that's not a big deal until you remember that today we had a nice thick coating of ice on EVERYTHING due to the lovely freezing rain that hit overnight. So that was a good start to everything.

We got to the pool and after skating to the front door across the ice rink of a parking lot, we went in and got changed. All's well so far.

Until we find out that the class before us 'fouled' the nice warm wading pool where we do our lesson. Either someone brought a chicken in or they didn't wear a diaper. I'm going with the latter.

Anyway, we decided we'd do boat safety and get the babies wearing PFD's, which was fine, except that the PFD's were wet and cold and the pool we went into was rather chilly as well. Garrett did NOT enjoy this. But we soldiered on, getting ready to put the babies on the floating mats and have them tip off so we could rescue them.

Then the lights went off. Of course, this meant that we had to evacuate the pool. We were only 15 minutes into our 30 minute lesson and we'd barely been in the water. They were going to just have us get changed and come out to have a little lesson when we realized that the lights were still on over the hot tub.

So we finished off the lesson in the hot tub. We learned about hot tub safety with babies (you're just supposed to dangle their legs in since they'll get too hot otherwise) and Garrett enjoyed the nice warm hot tub a lot more than the cold pool.

He also had a lot of fun playing with the bubbles coming out of the jets. He kept grabbing at them and laughing.

So it was a bit of a wash (no pun intended... or was it?) of a swimming lesson, but we did learn some stuff about hot tubs and boating and got to sit in the hot tub rather than freezing in the chilly pool, so it wasn't a total waste of time.

As long as the roof doesn't collapse next week, it'll be better than this week!