Part 11: more swimming and playing

 Right near the top of my favourite feelings ever, are the feel of a warm summer night, and a perfectly sunny and perfectly warm morning.  Not too hot, not too cold, but just right.  You are dressed exactly as you should be, there is the exact amount of a breeze to subdue the feelings of the hot sun, and you can smell the scent of the flowers, hear the trees in the wind, and in this case smell a nearby pool to swim in. Bliss.

We returned our rented BBQ tools and then got some coffee and juice from the restaurant.  The girls ran on the bridge, we looked at some ducks, and then went to the park for a bit where I listened in on a timeshare pitch that was going on with a family while their kids played at the park.  I enjoyed where the man guessed that the time share would be "$400,000?" which is way way way off, and then he and his wife were shocked at the actual price.

It was warm enough to swim so I put the girls in their bathing suits.  And this pool is shallow enough that I could just roll up my capri pants and wade in the water.

We bought a rubbery frog guy that will bounce on the water if you throw him like a skipping stone.

Paige and I worked on some of her "schoolwork" while Rose slept.  I had hoped to do more school-type activities with Paige, buuuut, it just didn't happen.  Hopefully she won't be behind when she gets back. I mean, we did all of the ones her teacher gave her, but I thought maybe we should do some other reading type activities. Paige misses school and I decided not to tell her that her class watched Happy Feet yesterday at school for Valentine's day.  I'm hoping she has lots of Valentine's when she gets back as she was worried they would forget to give her one.

After nap time, Paige wanted to go to the Pirate Ship pool which we had never been to.  At that time of day the pool is in the shade, and since it wasn't 40 degrees out, it was chilly when you were out of the water.  Being at the pirate pool involved going down the slide a million times with Rose as she wasn't able to to it herself.  Finally I couldn't handle it any longer as I was freezing, and Rose was shivering, so I said it was time to get out to which Rose had a huge tantrum.  We had to get changed at the pool because it was too far of a walk to be dripping wet all the way back to our room.

While Mike isn't around I can't take both girls in the deep end, so poor Paige can't work on her swimming which she really wants to.  She can fully swim underwater to the edge, at least 4 feet or so.  She just needs to learn to float and swim on the surface with her head out of the water.  I'll have to take a video of the swimming before we go.

We tried to look for the money again at the park on the way back:

Another partial viewing of Monster's Inc. over dinner, and then bed time.  Mike was home really late this night so I was sleeping when he got back.  It's really weird without a PVR, or even a tv guide.  So much channel surfing.