The Pool

We discovered the public pool last summer and it was awesome.

We live in an area where there are a bunch of lakes, which is nice and all but the pool…oh, the clean smell of chlorine, the crystal clear water, the way, when you take off your swimsuit there is no dirt, no ‘sea’weed, the lovely firmness of the cement of the pool is so much better than the muck at the bottom of most lakes.

Oh and there are no fish or other creepy crawlies in the pool.

Sure, sure the lake is free and all that but…I like the pool.

And sadly, the price of admission to the pool has gone up this year.

Last year, it was $2 for anyone over six years old. All children under six got in free.

This year…it’s $6 if you aren’t a resident of the town in which the pool sits. We live eight miles outside of time. Bummer. That’s $6 per adult and $3 for children under 16. Or, you can pay $16 for your family for the day.

There’s also the option of the family pass, which is $166 for non-residents. That’s us. That would mean we’d HAVE to go to the pool at least 11 times this summer to justify paying that kind of money just because it would mean that 11th trip was ‘free.’

I know, this is such a silly issue when there are people in this world who don’t have clean drinking water, etc. I get that. I realize this isn’t even so much as a problem. Because, wahhh, do we go to the free lake or do we pay for the pool. Everyone should have this dilemma.

And we don’t NEED to go to the pool. But I want to. We want to.

So we’re figuring it out.

We’re not a family that drops over $150 just to go swimming, usually. And yet…I think we might be on the verge of becoming one of those families. Because, as far as I’m concerned that pool? It is just so much nicer than the lake.