Recreation Center

We went to the South Portland Rec Center last night to swim.  The admission was $3/adult and $2/child.  Not too shabby.  The pool is warmest on Sunday night, the lifeguard said (and it was very warm! Yay!), because they ramp up the heat on the weekends for the swimming lessons.  I think we'll make it our regular Sunday night activity.  The pool is not cosmetically nice, the pool bottom was worn through to the concrete in many places, but it was clean and not too busy.  No fancy-shmancy stuff, no slides, spray things, just a rectangular pool.  But it was nice and quiet.  Riley took a while to get back into the swing of things, but she eventually was up to her old antics.  Avery hung onto the wall, as usual, for about the first 45 minutes, then let go and started swimming around in her life jacket, which is something she's NEVER done.  She was so funny, she moves her arms and legs in slow motion, with exaggerated grace.  I couldn't control my laughing a couple times.


The track at the community center is free for South Portland residents, so Rudi is going to make use of that.  Or so he says.  I think this winter, I will use the track too.  Probably just for walking, since I really don't like running.  Although I want to like running, and have tried many times to like running, it has never worked.  Maybe I'll try one more time...

I absolutely cannot wait until the winter schedule for the rec center comes out.  We just missed the beginning of the last session.  Riley wants to take swim lessons again, and I think they will have a clay class for kids again that I think she would enjoy.  Avery is hesitant to take classes, although I've been kind of pushing ballet.  They do have things for mothers and children to do during the day, so hopefully she'll be up for something like that.

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