Impromptu Time with Friends

Joe ended up taking a few days off of work so yesterday morning we decided it would be fun to go swimming. Several people had mentioned a city pool close to our house where you could pay a daily fee to go. I even looked up the times they were open on line the other night to make sure I knew when they were open. We got up and hit the ground running yesterday morning (a realtor was coming by) getting all our gear together, change of clothes, packed a lunch, grabbed some toys etc and headed out the door. We waddled our way into the facility toting all our gear and I asked the lady at the front desk where we could swim . . . she said, "Oh family swim doesn't start until 2:00 p.m. today. We just have reserved lanes each morning." Well, I felt like the Griswold's driving across country only to find out the amusement park was closed for maintenance. I called another pool that our neighbors go to and they said the same thing . . . family swim is only in the afternoon (so that's why my neighbors never leave for the pool until after lunch!).

So what do we do? We are driving around town with our swim suits on and Emily keeps saying gleefully from the back seat, "we're going swimming today!" We caught a glimpse of how upset Emily would be if we didn't find a pool because we turned on our street for me to grab something from the house and Emily started crying, "but we're going s-s-w-w-i-i-m-m-m-m-i-n-g-g-g-g!!!!" So I called our friends who have a pool in their neighborhood and told them I had a very strange request . . . could we please come hang out with them for a little bit and go swimming . . . I didn't know what else to do. They said sure because they go to the pool every day anyway and would love to hang out. So we met our great friends the Eldridges at their pool. Thanks you guys! Emily spent most of the time sitting on the steps playing with her toys. I finally got her in the water to swim around for a little bit. I can't believe I'm going to show this picture . . . but I am. Please ignore the huge pregnant woman floating in the water:
Joe and Larry got to talking and it turns out their computer had recently died so they made plans for us all to meet at our house for dinner that night so Larry and Joe could build a new computer from all the spare parts we have (thanks for helping clean out the junk in our closet!!!). So that's what we did. Their oldest daughter was at VBS but Amelia and Emily enjoyed playing together last night and the adults enjoyed visiting together:

So our day turned out really nice spending time with great friends! They are getting ready to move back to Alabama soon and we sure are going to miss them . . .