Funny last day of swimming lessons

I almost forgot to blog this, with the craziness of life lately but thankfully I remembered. Saturday, June 6th was the girls last swimming lesson. It was more of a "fun" day. The pool has like four or five different pools - some connected, some not. The pool that Keira's class was held in had a huge curly slide that came down into it. She always said she wanted to go in that, but it was never turned on during lessons. There is this little stream thing that we go around and create a "current". Our class was going around it and Keira and I were the last ones back into the regular pool. We just caught the tail end of the instructor telling us that we were going to get to go down the water slide. COOL! She had apparently given some instructions...none of which we heard, but we headed on up to the top of the slide anyway.

We watched as others went down and then it was our turn. Keira sat on my lap and as we took off, I ended up being pulled on my back. We literally CATAPULTED our way around that thing. I was "wooo-hooo"ing because it was like a ride at a waterpark. We were going crazy fast. Needless to say, we both crashed into the water - going under of course. The force had pulled us back so much there was no way I could keep her head out of the water. We were in for it.

When we came up for air, I could tell Keira was beginning to panic at what had just happened. I was calming her down when I realized my vision was blurry. The force of the crash into the water had knocked my glasses off!! I immediately alterted the instructors and they put their goggles on and dove in. People kept coming down the slide, and I prepared myself for the worst - mangled, broken glasses. To my surprise, they were perfect! PTL! I put them on and we waited for Travis and Mia to come down. They came down nice and slowly and Trav lifted Mia out of the water at the end...just like all of the other kids and their parents. He was laughing at me when he got out. He said, "Didn't you hear the instructions? You are supposed to sit up and spread your feet apart to get you to go slower." Information I could have used PRIOR to shooting out like a cannonball. I would do it again, though. ;-) It was awesome.

Oh, and both girls got certificates saying they passed the class. Mia is too little to move on yet but Keira got awarded to move on from "Starfish" to "Goldfish". Yea girls!