We found out first hand what it takes to empty and refill the pool today on this Carnival Cruise boat ‘Elation’.
Anastasia decided to christen the pool with her puking in it. She, of course, didn’t mean to. She must have been playing hard and just got herself a little too worked up.
As soon as it happened, security closed the pool untill housekeeping came and cleaned it. Then they emptied the pool into the ocean and refilled it. We found out they do this every night. They fill the pool with ocean water, so it’s not like we have to wait for them to add chemicals or anything.
Funny that my daughter cleared the pool. Leave it to her. ;)
Yesterday we went to my sister’s house for dinner. She has a very large swimming pool and no one was outside swimming, so I decided to change that. I went outside to swim. My daughter came outside a few minutes later.
A year ago, my daughter was good with standing in the shallow end and pretending she could swim. Even though I have been trying to teach her since she was 5, she never wanted to learn, or was just too afraid to listen.
Today, she wanted to race me across the pool. Deep end and all. I was proud. She was not afraid to swim anywhere and go under water. I noticed she was still holding her nose though when she went under water. I thought I could teach her how to go under without holding her nose.
So I asked her if she wanted to learn, she said she did. I showed her how to do it. Blowing air out of your nose when you go under then stop then blow out again when you come back up.
She was anxious to try, so here we go! She counts to three, 1, 2, … … … 3! She jummps up readying for the plunge under water, comes down ready to plummit in with out holding her nose and stops, head above the water standing on her feet. She got nervous. Ready again she tells me. Jumps up, lands on her feet. Again…jump…feet. About twenty times we do this. Of course at this point I am laughing telling her to just try it. Finally she does.
Blowing air out from her nose she goes under. Breathing in all the water she can on the way up. She jumps up, coughing and sneezing. I ask her if she is ok, she says yes, but she thinks she did wrong. Yes you did I tell her. We laughed and played for a little bit then I got out and went inside.
It was a good day. Nice to be in Arizona near familly after so many years of being away from them.
