Happy night
I went to the D-C pool tonight. A great time - one couple brought their 16-month-old, who charmed the lot. (I must confess it's the first time I've seen the swimsuit version of diapers. Let me assure the squeamish - they DO work, very well.)
It's interesting that the lifeguards couldn't give a tinker's dam about how many more than the 12 officially permitted bodies we had in the whirlpool. The only problem was the jets were on a 5-minute timer, so unless someone was walking by, one of the (well over) dozen bodies would have to get OUT of the whirlpool and press the button again. (At the wave pool, we've noticed a similar condition W/R/T the lifeguards and the age limit for the sauna that one has - nobody under 16 years of age. The explanation we've come up with is that the group tends to keep an eagle eye on what their kids are doing - we don't have unescorted under-16's, the group is family-oriented - and the rule is probably there to avoid having rugrats tearing into the sauna, possibly damaging it and/or injuring them.)
And as a lifeguard put it, because their walky-talkies weren't working, they couldn't let us use the waterslide. (You need to have the person at the bottom of the slide in radio communication with the person at the top of the slide, so as to let them know when they could send the next rider down.) Big disappointment for the kids, especially those over 50. ^_^ Fortunately for the energetic, Dave Fleming was able to get a pickup water polo game going in one of the swim lanes.
In three weeks, it's wave pool time. We'll get more kids, especially more older kids, for this one, and lots more women - mostly mothers of the kids.
It's interesting that the lifeguards couldn't give a tinker's dam about how many more than the 12 officially permitted bodies we had in the whirlpool. The only problem was the jets were on a 5-minute timer, so unless someone was walking by, one of the (well over) dozen bodies would have to get OUT of the whirlpool and press the button again. (At the wave pool, we've noticed a similar condition W/R/T the lifeguards and the age limit for the sauna that one has - nobody under 16 years of age. The explanation we've come up with is that the group tends to keep an eagle eye on what their kids are doing - we don't have unescorted under-16's, the group is family-oriented - and the rule is probably there to avoid having rugrats tearing into the sauna, possibly damaging it and/or injuring them.)
And as a lifeguard put it, because their walky-talkies weren't working, they couldn't let us use the waterslide. (You need to have the person at the bottom of the slide in radio communication with the person at the top of the slide, so as to let them know when they could send the next rider down.) Big disappointment for the kids, especially those over 50. ^_^ Fortunately for the energetic, Dave Fleming was able to get a pickup water polo game going in one of the swim lanes.
In three weeks, it's wave pool time. We'll get more kids, especially more older kids, for this one, and lots more women - mostly mothers of the kids.