kaleidoscoping chaos...: Swimming in Suburbia!

Monday, July 30, 2012

Swimming in Suburbia!

We are on a quest to go swimming as much as possible these days. Partly because Jonah is going to be "cooped" up for a good 10 days in the next few weeks post his tonsil surgery which happens next week and partly because I love swimming and my kids love swimming - and it is freaking hot out! (It also tires the kids out completely and they sleep blissfully through the night on the days I take them swimming...)

Last week we headed back out to Rockville to visit our buddies. We had such a good time last time we "visited" suburbia - we figured we go for it again! (see our last adventure here).

We headed to the Rockville Swim Center. This is a surburban county public pool at its finest!

It totally reminded me of when we were living in Glenview, IL during the summer 2010 and I took Jonah to the county public pool almost every day... there was a toddler pool, two huge pools, water sprays, water slides, snack bar, playground, the works! Jocelyn went back to Chicagoland last week for work... and going to the Rockville pool - it flooded me with our fun times in Glenview. What a crazy, stressful and wonderful two years it has been since our summer in Chicago!

Getting back to Rockville - this Rockville pool was the same deal - and maybe even better than the one in Chicagoland! At the Rockville pool there was a nice toddler pool with little sprays and I think three (maybe four) other huge outdoor pools (plus some indoor ones as well?!?), water slides, an entire sprayground, a zero entry pool, and snack bar. We were psyched!

We were the first ones there. And the only ones for a bit. I had my big pool bag with the towels, toys, pool noodle and pool floatys... Jonah wanted to swim in the big pool by himself with his noodle! Whoop Whoop. We get ourselves ready, we toddle over to the big zero entry pool... Jonah with his noodle, Vera with her floatys... and we hear a big whistle from the lifeguard...

No noodles in the big pool. No floatys in the big pool. Oiy! The agony of DEFEAT!

Jonah was crushed. But we were with our buddy. He wasn't so ready to jump in the big pool anyway so we relocated to the toddler pool - all toys and noodles, etc were allowed there and carried on! The kids had a blast. We had snacks/lunch at the snack bar. Then we headed to the "sprayground" which my kids absolutely LOVED!!!! Jonah went on both water slides - laughing the whole time. Vera even went on the little water slide!

By then, Vera was pretty wiped out. I changed her out of her swimsuit, buckled her into her stroller, parked her in the shade right at the edge of the big pool. Then Jonah and I went for a short swim in the big pool (sans noodle) and sang to Vera while we were swimming.

By then we were all wiped out! Another rocking and rolling time in Rockville with some great friends!