Four days into Summer Vacation. Naomi has hit the pool every single day. Sporting goggles, beach towels, and a ridiculously ambitious level of SPF protection we were among the mass of families attending the Cooper Y’s Outdoor Water World Grand Opening Pool Party.
Naomi marched right over to the teeny-bopper lifeguard, insisted on taking the swim test and was promptly awarded a red bracelet which serves as an all-access pass. It enables her to swim anywhere in the pool, and to utilize the water-slide at the deep end.
Poolside social dynamics, I was surprised to realize, are relatively intact from the days my brother and I would ride dirt-bikes over to Ballard Pool.
A gang of pretty girls sprawled on beach towels appearing unimpressed by everything. Underwater hand-stands were met by gasps and squeals of praise. A pair of teen-aged boys made terrific use of their snorkeling set. I think some narrative about submarines was at work there, but I’m not sure, they spent a lot of time sub-surface. Life-guards twirled their whistle strings. The war-paint white nose was missing. Maybe it’s too early in the year, maybe there are better sun screen products now.
Safety Check was met, universally, by kids groaning about the injustice of it all as they clamored out of the water. Naomi told me I could swim laps (I was “big enough”). She gangled over to spend Safety Check with some of her friends. Hadn't seen them since school let out last Thursday, you know. One of the girls noticed Naomi’s red bracelet.
"Oh, yeah, that." Naomi shrugged and held out her wrist, "You know, there's a lot that's happened this summer."
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