It was a frigid Saturday in December when 10 excited, little girls and two adults left Caronport for the Kinsmen Pool in Moose Jaw. Brooklyn Grace Davidson was having her birthday party and we were going swimming for the afternoon. There were a lot of details to remember: car seats for everyone, the cupcakes, a lighter, candles, napkins, swimming stuff for everyone, presents, goodie bags, hats, mittens, extra blankets in case the vans broke down, music for the vans, and a camera to commemorate the occasion. So I remembered almost everything. Care to take a guess on what I forgot? Well, let’s just say that we needed to get napkins at the pool. We pretended to blow out the candles and I will need to sketch the pictures by hand. Yes – that’s right. I forgot the camera. But in a way, it is a good thing. You will get to practice using that imagination!
So imagine here is a picture of all the girls bundled up in the van, anticipating an afternoon of birthday fun.
And here is a shot of everyone at the pool, ready to start swimming. Brookie is the one in the middle with that green and pink bathing suit on. Rosie is the one leaving the picture to go down the waterslide.
Here are all the girls playing with Robert. Robert is the young, capable lifeguard we hired to entertain the kids for an hour while Sean and I soaked in the hot tub.
Here is a great shot of Sean and I in the hot tub.
This one really captures the excitement of climbing all those stairs to ride down the waterslide.
Here we are playing in the shallow end all together just before we stopped for cupcakes.
The girls all loved sitting poolside for drinks, chips, present-opening and cupcakes.
And here we are wet, tired, and ready for our drive back to Caronport.
See! Who needs a camera?
~Mandy
2 comments:
I like this. The crap thing about photographs is someone has to take them. This way you are all in the picture. I say who needs a thousand proverbial words when ten or fifteen can do the work. And, not that your family has to worry, but there might be something appealing here for the chronically disheveled.
It certainly looks like everyone had a great time.I love the picture of you going up the slide. I know that slide. It's a scary thing. You can get stuck half way down.
Pictures are over-rated. After all we have books without words, why not words without pictures.
xx
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