Working hard... play hard!

So Sunday, I had an ultra long day! Swimming was great before work! I still feel a little out of shape, but it felt so good to get back in and be able to swim some laps! After work I went home and got some dinner since I only had an hour to get back to guard the pool party that night! The lady having the party called hours before and told us that there was going to be more people than she thought, so she was going to need another lifeguard. Luckily Heather stepped up and was willing to work it with Dom and I. It was crazy busy for the first hour but after that, people started leaving and it was not bad at all! Most of the kids go to the pool on a regular basis, so they already knew the rules so we didn't have to constantly yell at them! The mom thanked us for being so accomidating and told us that she was going to bring us home made Italian lassagna on friday...mmmmmmm! I can't wait! After everyone left, we cleaned up and headed back home! A bunch of people went out to a bar but I ended up just staying in! Dom and I ended up talking for a while to keep ourselves entertained while everyone was at the bar, until Taylor and Heather joined us and we all had a big powow in my room! Around 2 am everyone finally split into their respective rooms and passed out for the night! We had to get prepared for our next in service!

So Monday is always what we call "in-service". That means we either do some lifeguard practice of somesort, or lessons practice and some overall discussion of the past week. So we did that and then we always have some sort of challenge between the 2 groups! This week it was lifeguard tube relay races! Unfortunately my team, "West Coasters" didn't win, but it was okay, we gave it our best shot! We don't necessarily have the most athletic people on our team! haha! After in-service we always have what we call mandatory funday monday! This week we got a clue saying to meet up at the bowling alley and dress 80's! So everyone rushed back to their room and we all got ready together in our 80's getup! The girls in my group all wore black leggins with our swimsuit over it and an off the shoulder shirt with our hair in a side ponytail. Dom, the only male in our group, was such a good sport and let us dress him up like richard simmons!!! Shorty shorts and all! haha! So we all, group 1 and 2, walked to the bowling alley all eightied out in broad daylight! It was so much fun! We all bowled decent, but we all just had a great time with it! After which, group 2 was taken to the Commissary and the Bx again to stock up for another week! When we all got home, some people went to dinner, while Dom, Jessica, and I stayed back and played cards! We taught Jess how to play some poker and used my hershey kisses as chips! And then we learned this awesome game called "Indian poker", where you each get a card and stick it to your forehead and bet based on what other people have, hoping that you have the highest card! It was so fun because we were all tired and there is absolutely no thinking involved! It was an awesome way to end the night and I was excited because I knew today I was going to be able to help with lessons!

Today was an early morning helping with swim lessons! We were told to aid the first group since we were going to be teaching in a few weeks! It was super fun! The lessons I will be teaching in a few weeks are the super beginners who are just learning floats and stuff, and the level 6, which is like competative stroke improvement. I also was scheduled to teach water aerobics and I couldn't be more excited!!! So I just finished aiding lessons and now I'm headed back to the pool to help the other Kim teach her first water aerobics class! Then it's the weekend! Not sure what it's going to entail yet though...maybe some more beach? :)
Ciao!