It's cloudy, the wind is chilly and it's been spitting rain on and off all morning...
so we decided to go swimming outdoors.
The benefit of all that is the water felt incredibly warming and we only had to share the pool with around 1/2 dozen other keen loonies
As it was so chilly we had ourselves a treat out of the cafe
hot dogs & chips
The pool is set on the large open park in the area and is built over ruins of Roman Baths
It has a large grassy area which the kiddos made full use of today.
^^I've no idea what that's all about^^
A completely deserted and empty pool
The pool looked sunny even in the rain
When we finally decided that blue was not the colour we should be
we headed home and found these in the car park...
They had been having a game of volleyball in the park and were just packing up to head back to the station when we got there
and bless them they put the lights on for us and gave us all lots of big smiley waves as they set off.
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For my own reference I can hardly believe how improved the kiddos are in the pool. Their confidence has shot up over the last couple of weeks, Fonzy is more than happy to bob out to the deeper end and is happy for me to let go and leave him bobbing along; Loopy is now happy putting her face in the water, not minding when she's splashed or the water gets into her ears; RV today was dropping to the bottom of the pool, swimming under the water and laying on his back floating.
For the first time I actually managed a couple of lengths myself today, without having to tow Loopy & Fonzy along!
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