A Failed Outing

After taking my kiddos to the pool during Memorial Day weekend, I was really excited to take them again. We only stayed at the pool for thirty minutes (mostly because it was so crowded) because I thought we could just come back during the following week with some of my sisters to help. I talked with two of my younger sisters and we picked a day to go to the pool again that would work with my sisters’ work and school schedules. This time I had made better plans: eat breakfast, excerise early, get groceries, and head to the pool to arrive a few mintues before they opened. I had the swimsuits laid out and the pool toys all together in a mesh bag along with my chemical free sunscreen. My sisters came over at ten thirty in the morning while I was exercising. As soon as I finished, one sister stayed with the kids at home and the other went with me to quickly get groceries at the supermarket. When we got back (in less than an hour) we got the kids and ourselves into our swimming suits and our bodies covered in sunscreen and piled into the car. It took us twenty minutes to drive to the only pool that was open this early in the season. When we got there it looked pretty empty but we got there a few mintues early. We waited and nobody came to open the pool. I called the phone number on the back of my pass to find out why the pool was not open. I was told that the pool only opened for Mermorial Day Weekend (it was not even open on Monday) and that the pool would open again with all the other pools on June second. The website indicated that this particular pool would be opend from May twenty sixth to August nineteenth but it was incorrect. I was annoyed! We drove a fairly long distance after getting ourselves ready for a day at the pool and it failed. To try to save our efforts we went to a local lake that was only a few miles away and spend a few minutes sun bathing but sand and lake water is no comparision to a crystal clear heated pool!