Under the Sprinkler

Kai, Amélie and I were elated to hear that the Yellow Springs public pool, which was supposed to close for the season yesterday, will remain open through its normal closure date on Labor Day. Today, even though it is gymnastics day and we normally rest on gymnastics afternoons, we piled into my mom’s car laden with sunscreen, towels and snacks for a short dip. We were then enormously disappointed to find that, because the public school resumed today (Kai attends private school and Amélie, because she’s just starting Kindergarten, doesn’t start until next week), the pool will open each day at 4 p.m. until 7 p.m. This is, of course, incredibly inconvenient for us because I usually leave them between 3:30 and 6 p.m.

Bummed out, we returned to my house and set up our sprinkler, which hasn’t gotton much use this year. What a blast! We should have been doing this all summer. I’ll be sad when these long days are over.