Swimming Pool Mayhem Part one
This installment is the beginning of a series of incidents with the life guards. The first one wasn't too much of a big deal, but there is one coming up that got ole' Buzzilla The Hun totally riled up. That's never good.
At home we belong to this golf club and they have a pool where we swim. Its pretty fun-has a slide and stuff. But the life guards they hired last year were crabby and not very nice. The members really griped about them. Apparently Disneys Grand Californian hired life guards from the same hiring pool (pun intended).
Ill talk more about them later because we did have some more serious run ins later on with them. The first day wasnt too bad.
The pool was pretty busy. We picked out a place to sit down and I saw the life jackets on a shelf. Apparently you just help yourself, unlike OKW where you have to show your room card and all that. Trey does not need one, but he likes them so I help him pick the right size. LeeAndra needs one, but doesnt like to wear them. I force one on her and tell the kids to go down the slide. There's a life guard at the top. Were watching them and they get to the top and all of a sudden they turn around and come back down to us.
Whats wrong? I ask. LeeAndra says they cant go down with life jackets on.
Buzz thinks its a California rule because they do it all the time in Florida. So I tell them to go back up and take their life jackets off. They got to the top and I could see the life guard talking to them. Pretty soon, they turned around again and came back down to us. LeeAndra told me that the life guard doesn't think they can swim since they had life jackets on and he won't let them go down the slide.
I go back up with them and the life guard asks me if they can swim. He said he saw the life jackets and wondered. I assure him they can (even though LeeAndra isnt really good at it). Its not very deep at the bottom. Shell be ok. He finally lets them go down the slide. LA goes sailing down, dog paddles to the edge and gets out. I considered telling him about Treys disability, but in the end, I didnt.
This guy wasn't mean-but the kids were pretty shook up about being told they couldn't go down the slide.
Trey seemed a little nervous, but he's been on tons of water slides so I tell him to go down and he does. Only half way down he stopped and started screaming!! Oh my gosh-it was embarrassing!!
I hurried to the bottom, jumped in to the water and yelled for him that Id catch him. So he finally came down, screaming all the way. As soon as he got to the bottom he grabbed onto me for dear life. I tried to show him that he could touch the bottom but when I tried to untangle myself from him, he panicked and would scream. He was way taller than the water level, but I couldn't get him to see that-he was just too scared.
I spent about 10 minutes trying to get him to see he could touch the bottom in that part of the pool when the life guard told me we couldnt swim in that area. Fine. I wasnt really swimming. I was trying to show Trey he could touch so he could go down the slide. I considered telling her about his special needs, but she didnt look like shed care or make an exception for us. She was giving us the evil eye. Now this one was a little mean and later on, she was too.
I get Trey out and tell him no more slide unless he goes down without his jacket. He doesnt want any part of that so he decides to go down the kiddie slide. Only problem is he sits at the top while other kids are waiting. For a long time.
When the other kids tell him to go down the slide, he doesnt hear them. So he continues to sit until hes good and ready to slide down. I make him get off that one and tell him he just cant slide.
Poor kid.
Pretty soon, LeeAndra gets bored of the slide and we play Shark. That was fun and soon, I have her shrieking and laughing when I grab her in the water. We do this for about 45 mins and then I get out. And its freezing out of the water!! I wrap up in some towels, try to chat with Buzz, but hes sleeping. So I watch the kids play while my eye keeps killing me. I definitely think I need that new set of contacts.
We head back up to the room before long and on the way we passed our restaurant where wed be eating later that night. Storytellers Café. It looked good. And smelled even better.
We went back upstairs and I unpacked while Buzz napped. When I finished unpacking, I laid down too, not intending to sleep. Pretty soon, I woke up and it was time get ready for dinner. Our first nights dinner!!
Next up:
My eye gets relief!!
And the kids are really big. The boy is 13 and he's over 6 ft tall. I don't know about the girl, but she's really tall for her age too.
Tried, that is. 
Later, I passed the stress on to Buzz.
