January 23nd, 2011

yesterday was a day I just needed to get out of the house.. trying to rack my brain of things to do in Seattle.. on a Saturday no less.. was hard.. I needed something that wasn’t too busy.. and in the case of Olive wanting to be held a lot.. instead of running around if it was to busy.. because its getting harder to hold her weight up with this new belly.. and her little sister doesn’t like it..  my sister told me to go to the pool.. 

perfect! there is a great one in Mountlake Terrace.. beyond kid friendly.. warm water and a concession stand.. only bad thing.. it started 15 minutes ago.. and its 20 minutes away.. no biggie.. “threw together our crap” is an understatement.. throw her in the car.. and we are off.. and of course.. I needed to get gas.. oh Murphy..  we get there.. and walk up only to see a sign that reads.. 

POOL FULL.. next swim 1:35.. 

lame.. this girl has been talking about going to the pool for the last half hour.. and now.. here we are.. denied.. I even called Dust asking what to do.. so we chose to buy some snacks and wait it out.. the whole hour.. and I had to stare at this heart breaking picture.. and think of a way to explain to her.. why we were on the other side of the glass..

we finally made it in.. only to try and change on soaking wet floor.. with tons of kids running around.. resting on a bench that was uneven and flopping around.. but we made it..  and she loved it.. I didn’t know we all had to line up and wait for “round two” of swimmers to go in.. until I saw one of the lifeguards laughing at me when they announced for everyone to get out.. and I looked very confused.. I thought we just wasted $9.50 on a 7 minute swim.. but.. it just wasn’t our turn..

Olive has turned into a little water baby.. I could barely keep up.. mainly because I was 5 and a half months pregnant.. in the kiddie wading pool.. trying to pull up my bikini bottoms.. and top that I feared was exposing my mama jumbas.. thankfully.. no ones eyesight was injured in the process.. we lasted 40 minutes.. sat in the warm showers for 10 minutes.. and headed home.. only to both conk out for a 3 hour nap.. 

which made it all worth while!!