Last swim lesson...

Hayden got stronger as the week went on and her strokes improved greatly! My favorite part of swim lessons as a child was always on the last day when we got to improve upon our water entry....enjoy!

Day 2 of swimming...

Teaching an old dog new tricks....

Hayden has been a 'swimmer' since the age of 2 (holding her breath, going in the deep end, diving for sticks) but she has never been a swimmer (as in knowing any stokes)! She has always been just happy with her way of swimming (under water like a mermaid) for the last 9 years. After many years of swim lessons and just as many years of her stubbornness, we are attempting it yet again! We got lucky this year and she has one on one instruction (I guess that is because most 11 year olds know how to swim)! Can she actually learn to do some real strokes? Is there hope? I doubt she will be swim team material but maybe in 3 more days she will actually know the 'art' of swimming! :-)

Wow...my computer skills are growing! :-)

Friday night swim....

Hayden and her friend wanted to go to the pool tonight. The nice part was they had the whole pool to themselves!

Day 3...

Picture 1 - This is Pat Conroy's year round home. Very unpretentious... Picture 2 - These are some form of Myrtle trees (wax, I believe)...they have beautiful flowers!
Picture 3 - Hayden swimming (duh!)...she had her first bout with Swimmers Ear when we left for the beach on Friday so she is wearing ear plugs this week while it is still healing.
Hint..you can click on the picture and it will blow up and you can see then why I pick the pictures I do (like the one of Hayden swimming above) They usually have fun detail. :-)

More day 2....

Picture 1 - My nephew Pete going down the water slide at one of the pools.
Picture 2 - Hayden's turn!
Picture 3 - Me! :-)
Picture 4 - Hayden and Pete ready to go back to the house on golf cart #1.
Picture 5 - James and Henry (brothers and my nephews) riding on golf cart #2!

Summer already?!?!?!

Our temperature hit 100 here and is expected to exceed that the next 3 days! The pool was the place to be!