Really Cool Swimming Pool

It has not been a lot of fun at our house since the snake incident. I will not go into details, because it's one of those "marital disputes" that doesn't need to be discussed in a forum such as this. Suffice it to say, Friday I was not in a very good mood. I was preparing to pretty much hermit-up, and pout for much of the day after I finished some morning tutoring. Thankfully, a friend, Audrey, called early in the afternoon and asked if Allison and I wanted to go with her, Carolyn and Brenner to the swimming pool over at Seneca. Seneca is a small community about 30 minutes away from us. They, within the past year or two, constructed a new community swimming pool. I've driven by it before, and it looked very kid friendly, but had yet to visit there. After a moment of pondering if I would rather just sit and pout, or if I would rather get out and enjoy the world, I said yes of course.

What a wonderful addition to the community. I wish I would have taken some sort of camera to take some pictures to post. Although cameras and swimming pools generally do not meld well. If we go back again, I will try to remember a camera.

It has a large zero entry side for the young kids, with a walled off section for the itty-bitty kids with a large yellow sturdy umbrella-like structure; with more zero entry section which walks to a larger area that gets progressively deeper. There is a toddler/preschooler/young child turtle slipper slide into the water; there are sea turtle, star fish and some other sea animal floating/surfing climbing structures teathered into the water; this area then leads under an arched bridge which can be swum/walked through while people can walk over the bridge over your head to get ffrom one side of the pool to the other. Once through the bridged area, the pool opens up into a larger deeper area. It is still between 3 and 4 1/2 feet deep at this point. Walking to the left is a play/climbing area with about 7 floating/teathered disks with a climbing net over head to walk/balance through. Farther on to the right is the deeper diving area with 2 diving boards I believe. To the extreme left at this point are two separate, self-contained slipper sldes. I call them self-contained because they do not enter the large swimming pool like the one at Marysville does. These two both end in what I will call looks like a large bath tub...kids/people come sliding down and end at the end of a shallow tub, stand up, and get out. One of the slides is a tall 'regular' type slide, and the other one is an enclosed squiggly swirly slide. They look like a lot of fun. Allison was disappointed because she was not tall enough to go on them; they have a height restriction that kids have to be at least 48 inches tall; she's about 43-44.

The water was perfect, and it was just a pleasant place to be yesterday. It was very relaxing and I can definitely see us going back over. It was a lot of fun.