We went swimming on Sunday, Father's Day. I swam for about 15 minutes. The kids pool is heated and pleasant but for some reason, the kids wanted to go to the big pool. It is not heated, or it is so big it is not heated as much. It was a cold walk from one pool to the other which was kind of strange since it was very warm in the building.
Once we got to the bigger pool, the kids jumped in but I was a bit reluctant. I knew it was going to be cold. Maeghan talked me into it so I got in. I was right, it was cold. She kept telling me it would warm up when I moved around but I was not finding that to be the case. I treaded water for about two minutes, it is 2 meters deep so I can't stand on the bottom. After that, I was exhausted. And, I was not any warmer, in fact, I was getting colder. So I opted out.
One good thing about it was that is was a lot warmer being out of the water than when I was in it. It was actually pleasant at that point. So I sat on the bench and watched for about ten minutes then I decided to go get a coffee. They have a small café there and the coffee was not too bad. I had some kind of muesli slice, or that is what they called it. It tasted really good, lots of fruit in it, but it was overwhelmingly sweet. I got it to have with my coffee but it was so huge and tasted so sweet, I finished the coffee before I finished the slice. With no coffee left to counteract the sweetness I did not finish the slice. I ate about two thirds of it but could not work up the appetite to finish the rest.
Just about the time I was going to go back to the kids, they showed up at the café and said they were hungry. I think they got some chips and some dim sim or something. William also got a coke before he went back to the pool.
They said they were going to slide down the slide but I did not see them do it so I cannot say whether they did or not. It is a decent slide into the water. Lots and lots of kids and adults go on it. I never have but it looks like fun.
After a while, they went back to the big pool. I went and got dressed and then sat on the bench where they were. I am told William went off the big diving board but I did not see it. It is a ten meter board so I question whether he actually did it or not but they say he did. I have seen him go off of some smaller ones but I don't think I have ever seen him do something that big.
Afterwards. we went to McDonalds of course. I was just stopping for a frozen coke and a snack but they both said they were hungry again so they had two snacks. We were at the pool for about 3 hours. The hardest part was leaving the pool and walking to the car. It is all uphill and by the time I go to the car, I was exhausted. I think that says more about what bad shape I am in as opposed to how big the hill was but it was hard to walk the whole thing without stopping and resting.
We came home and had my special lemon, fried olive spaghetti. I think I need to start leaving out the lemon as I used it the first time I made it and did not put olives in it and it was really lemony but since I have added onions and green olives, you cannot really taste the lemon anymore.
I have been making my green olive spaghetti for a long time, since I was in the US and I saw something similar on the Frugal Gourmet show. I have adapted it and changed it over the years until it is my favorite way of eating spaghetti but then I saw the lemon thing on the movie Chef and I tried that. Now I have combined them and I think it is great but since Maeghan does not really like the green olives I will make it two separate thing from now on I think.
Did you notice I turned this into a food blog again. I am good at it. You probably didn't even notice, that's how subtle the switch was. I'm tricky that way.
Maeghan has her college signup this week. It's on Thursday. She has a doctors appointment in the afternoon and I was not going to get to go as I have to pick up William from school but now I think we have arranged for me to pick up William and then meet them in town and swap kids so I can go with Maeghan. Her thing is between 4 and 7 and she can show up at anytime but I think we need to get there early so she has more time to do what she needs to do.
She has to take her resume, and a cover letter and several other pieces of identification. I think we have it all together now. I had helped her write a resume a few months back and we wrote a cover letter for her last night. We will see if that is what they are looking for.
I guess I have written enough in this entry. If I write everything every time, I might run out of things to say and have to resort to talking about food all the time. We don't want that. So I will go ahead and end this for now.
Until next time
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