Pan-Am Pool Sux
It’s been a rough week around here. We went for our annual Christmas dinner on Monday with the buds and at least one person from every table was feeling a little under the weather. This flu that is going around is nasty. I don’t know how bad it has to get before someone attaches some letters and numbers to it (H2N2) and people start lining up outside of malls to get their shots.
Tuesday night I went out with Bosak to the Moose Game and then for wings at Pony Pier 7. Had I known how sick Shan was I never would have went. She was up all night spewing and well into the morning. I thought it would be a good idea to get Lexi out of the house in the morning so we packed up her swim clothes and went to Pan Am Pool.
We got there at about 10pm and the lady at the front desk informed us that the pool was at capacity and that people were already waiting. There were about 3 people ahead of us so I put my name on the list and waited with the others. Lexi was so patient. We read a book, had a snack, and made friends with some of the other kids waiting. Eventually people were let in and after about an hour we were next. It was then one of the people who worked there made an announcement that they were opening the shallow pool and would be letting us all in. That means that everyone who is there for the kiddie pool would basically have to hang out in the shallow pool and hope to get into the kiddie pool when people leave.
We got our suits on and proceeded to the kiddie pool to find that there was only one other person in there. WTF? Lexi and I got in and started to swim a little when the life guard on duty announces that they are closing the kiddie pool for maintenance. We weren’t even there for 5 mins. Man was I pissed. They told us we could go to the shallow pool and swim. After telling the guy how impressed I was with this I noticed that all the people from the kiddie pool were now standing around the shallow pool because there was a water polo team practicing. I just walked passed everyone with Lexi and got right in the pool. I was just hoping someone would say something to me. Eventually the polo team moved over and the others all came into the pool as well. It was all very short lived because the shallow pool was 3 times colder than the kiddie pool and the kiddies weren’t too happy about it. Lexi wanted nothing to do with the shallow pool so we got dried off and left. Lexi was really good about it and was singing “Somewhere Over The Rainbow” in the change room so I know she wasn’t too upset. We ended up getting a free pass to come again.
Yippee.