Icky and Slimey and Smelly

Day 32
Swimming

Another date with the lake this morning. And the lake was none to pleased to see us. As we weren't for him either.

We met at the lake at 7 am and it felt nice to sleep in a little bit, though I did keep waking up, wondering if it was time to get up. Grrrr...

Hillary was a little late getting there, just after I had successfully convinced Christina that we could just go home and go back to bed. But alas...

Christina and I got in first. The lake was particularly gross this morning with a putrid smell eminating from it. It wasn't so bad in the middle, but the edges were disgusting. On the way back, I started gagging and I was having a hard time keeping it in. I tried breathing through my mouth, but it didn't help. Ew...

Hillary and Christina swam the next round. I lost track of both heads at the turnaround spot, but then saw Hillary headed off to the side. It was quite impressive how fast she was going, but I was trying to figure out how to get her attention that she was going in the wrong direction--in fact she was headed right for the big lake combine that was cutting weeds. But, then she switched and headed back towards the right shore, so I figured she'd done it on purpose. Apparently, not so.

Since we got a late start and I didn't have the kids, I called Wade to see how close to ready he was. He said he was almost ready, so we had to bag our second swim. I was okay with it because I really didn't want to get back into the lake.

We decided we didn't need to swim in the lake again until our mock triathlon on August 8. Good thing because something rubbed against my foot and I about lost it out there.

When I got home, Wade was just getting out of the shower. Chump.

However, remember when I was contemplating pulling out of the triathlon because of my cousin's wedding that day? Well, turns out they're postponing it. Good thing I listened to my gut on that one. :)