Swimming Recapitulation

We are still squeezing all the fun we can out of the last few days of vacation, but I wanted to go ahead and recap our swimming experiences. Although we will likely swim a few more times, the pool is where we spent the majority of our summer. By way of recap, we spent the first week of summer at the beach, followed by Vacation Bible School.  After that, the duo spent a week at a summer camp in a day program, and then they had two weeks of swimming lessons.  We took some time off around July 4th to hang out as a family, we celebrated George's birthday, and then we had two additional weeks of lessons.  We had another week of Vacation Bible School (at our church), and then we were back at the pool.  Suffice it to say, we are regulars at the pool at this point.

During the last week of lessons, we had some excitement when the lifeguards were audited with a surprise drowning drill.  The below victim dove into the deep in, called for help and began waving his arms for help.  The lifeguard on duty cleared the pool, and the additional lifeguards (two giving our class lessons along with two lifeguards who were administering individual lessons) went into action.  Having never seen a lifeguard audit, the entire thing was interesting and absolutely fascinating to the girls... simultaneously scary and reassuring.

The rest of our time was uneventful and involved lots of jumping, swimming and floating.

Finally, when we were swimming this past weekend, the water aerobics class with whom we have gotten familiar (because their class is the hour before our lesson) had a special boot camp program.  Here is where I am going to have to admit to having no experience with the boot camp exercise regimens, and I realize that's probably not something impressive.  But, y'all.  It was a sight to behold.  The regular water aerobics were seriously amped up, and then the instructor periodically called for two people to get out and perform sit-ups and push-ups on the hot concrete.  There was a good bit of yelling involved.

Afterward, a couple of the ladies with whom we have become familiar asked me to watch for the class on the schedule and join.  Candidly, I told them the water portion seemed fine, and the sit-ups were doable.  Push-ups? On hot concrete? I don't want to seem cowardly, but that doesn't sound pleasant at all.  Sadly, the class ends in August (and apparently it's bad form to join with two classes remaining).

There's the silver lining for summer coming to a close.