Today we were invited to a homeschool swim time at the local aquatics center.  Rather intimidating meeting new people while in a bathing suit.  Yah, and a bathing suit you're not sure will fit!  Whew!  But I went, kind of dreading having to entertain 3 kids in a pool with a bunch of other people.  Imagine my surprise when I walked in the pool area and there's this really cool water park kind of thing with lifeguards all around and such.  The kids had a BLAST and I got to sit on the side of the pool and visit with other Mommy's.  I did brave going down this really big spiral slide with David in my lap....yeah, cuz all my friends were doin' it......like I didn't learn better in high school, right?  Well, the thing is, I didn't want to wear my glasses and get them all wet and water spotted, so I left them on a sill at the bottom of the slide.  I climb (and climb) to the top of the slide and realize I cannot at all see the lifeguard who is supposed to signal you when it's okay to go down the slide!  I figure that blurry blob with a bit of red might be the lifeguard and the blob moves a bit so I sit down to go.  Behind me, another Mom suggests that I hold David up when I hit the water at the bottom(it's only about 3 1/2 feet deep).  So there we go, and we're going, and we're laughing and I'm thinking this ain't so bad.....yeah, then I get to the end of the slide....yes, I remembered to hold David up, but I was sitting on the bottom of the pool!!  Yes, got a good drink of "pool-aid" which is just so fun!  Ugh! 

David wanted to go again but I convinced him we should go in another spot, which Daniel then referred to as the "flushing potty"....oh fun.  So you go around and around in this circular current around a central round hot tub spa kind of place......hard to put words to it.....and yes, by the 5th time floating around I did start wondering if there might be a giant drain I'd get sucked into.  I finally convinced David that he really had had a lot of fun over with the other little kids and the big water-sprinkling-slide-play things.....because then I could again sit on the sidelines and watch (with my glasses ON!!). 

Overall, it really was very fun.  I was nervous about Daniel having to go in the locker room by himself, but we discovered a family locker room, which was great until it was time to go and then there was a bunch of teenage kids (mainly boys) in there waiting to change....yeah, a bit awkward, so after Daniel changed, David and I went to the women's locker room.  Ack....next time I'm wearing a dress over my bathing suit and coming home wet or something!!