“How I Spent My Day!” by Ken Switzer
And the saga of my life continues…this episode is called, “The Search for a Swimming Pool!”
I knew of a pool not too far from our house. So we tried there first. I knew of this pool because Sandro once pointed it out and told me that when he lived on the streets, he and his buddies would sneak in to swim. It was open when we got there. However, upon closer examination, we discovered there was no water in the pool itself. On to pool number two…
Pool number two (which David knew about) turned out to be a hotel’s pool. Being Canadian I assumed that we wouldn’t be aloud in to swim unless we pulled a Sandro and snuck in. I actually found out later that we probably could have used the pool if we paid. However, I didn’t know this and we moved on to pool number three.
Pool number three was a bit tough to find. We had to four-wheel drive it a bit through a construction site and still weren’t sure where we were. Against my better judgement, I let one of the guys go ask a security guard at a nearby condo if he knew if there was a pool nearby. He quite loudly laughed and said there was no way there was a pool anywhere in the area. Two taxi drivers parked in front of the condo joined in to back him up. Essentially they said we were idiots for thinking there was a pool anywhere within a two mile radius.
We drove a half a block and saw the gate to the pool. The property of the pool actually backed up against the property of the condo. Which just reinforces my “don’t ask for directions because people are dumb” policy. I walked in to check out pool number three, but unfortunately it was being rented by a church group who were surrounding the pool singing choruses while the pastor baptized people. I figured they probably wouldn’t appreciate us trying to play water volleyball. It wasn’t that big of a pool.
Onto pool number four…
Pool number four was the money pool! It was amazing (as you can see by the pictures below)! It wasn’t even that expensive ($5 to get in…$6 for lunch). And there were hardly any people there. I assured the boys I’d be returning…I just wasn’t sure if I’d be with them or not… =)
Anyhow…we had a great time. But enough talk…on to the photos. I’m sure you’re all anxious to see how we spent our day….
The pool…
Jimmy, Jose Miguel and Jesus…
Jimmy and Jesus were determined to master the backward summersault…
They did pretty good…
Although they also discovered the little diving board thingy was kind
of hard to keep you balance on….
But they finally figured it out…
Meanwhile, David and Sandro decided to have a little poolside rumble…
Sandro held his own for awhile…
But in the end….David took him.
Let’s be honest though…Sandro was a little out of his weight class…
And Andres you ask?
Then came volleyball in the pool…which is really more like soccer in the pool
with a volleyball, since you can only use your head…
I wanted to include a whole collection of pictures of
Jimmy making the head shot…
…but I settled on this one…
The other guys playing…
And one more of Jimmy…
And Andres?
But he woke up in time for lunch…
They came out to the pool and asked us what we wanted and then had the
table set and food ready for us before they called us to the restaurant.
This was a good pool.
And in case you were wondering…except for the picture taking and eating lunch…
…this was my view from my deck chair the rest of the afternoon.
Like I said…it was a good pool.
Anyhow, before you get too jealous, it’s not like we do this every day. But it’s nice to know we could if we wanted to…. =)
Thanks everyone! See you soon…
