Yesterday we had Callie's birthday party. We met at the Surf N' Slide Water Park and the party was supposed to be from 5-8. We would swim for 2 1/2 hours and then go to the park and have cake until 8. Six of Callie's friends came and everyone disappeared into the pool. I have managed to avoid the Aquatic Center for a really long time, which has everything to do with 1) my aversion to large crowds of people and 2) my pasty-white legs and unwillingness to get into anything that remotely resembles a bathing suit. So, it has been several years since I've been there. I was wondering if Blisa would get into the water. I put her in a pool when she was a baby, and haven't been able to get her in one since. Any hotel with a pool we have been to, she refuses to get in. So I was delighted that she was having a wonderful time! She acted like it was her first time...then I got to thinking, it pretty much was! Other than her one infant experience in a hotel pool, she hasn't been to one! I don't think I have ever taken her to the aquatic center and she's 6 years old! She absolutely loved it! She was going down the slides and all over the place. I couldn't keep up with her.
Dean was late, but he got there about 5:45. Olivia, our neighbor, came and voiced her concerns about storm clouds above. I reassured her that it was not going to rain. She was worried about being in the pool with lightening. I told her that a storm wasn't in the forecast, and if it did start to strike, they would make everyone get out of the pool. No sooner had the sentence left my mouth when they announced the pool was now closed and everyone must leave at once. We got in just over 1/2 an our of swimming and Dean got 10 whole minutes of swimming- with no refunds, might I add! You tell me- is 30 minutes of swimming worth $46?!
While we were standing in the lobby waiting for half our party to get out of the showers, the manager (I'm assuming, because she acted like she was in charge), very rudely announced to all of us still in the lobby "PLEASE exit our building NOW!" What? You are kidding, right? We just paid you $46 for 30 minutes of swimming and now you are being RUDE? And the last time I checked, the tax payers own that building, not YOU! I've got issues with bad customer service!
We all shuffled out of cranky pool and headed to the Big Toy, while I wondered how to kill 2 full hours! The cake wasn't even there yet because Brian was bringing it at 7:15 and he wasn't answering his phone. Everyone was hungry and thirsty....so I decided to order Papa John's Pizza and some pop. I told the order taker "Can you please bring us cups because we are at the park and we can't drink the pop without them." He assured me he would bring cups. Again I reminded him, "Please don't forget the cups!" They brought the pizza 30 minutes later and 2-liter of Coke...and no cups. I said, "Please tell me you brought the cups." "It wasn't on the ticket," he says. Hmmm...I'm thinking if I was delivering 2 pizzas and a 2 liter to a birthday party in the park, I would not expect them to pass it around and each take a swig, but that's just me. Brian showed up with the cake and I hoped in the van and drove 3 blocks to the baby store and brought cups back with me. Everyone was greatful for food, we at the cake, and the kids played until their parents came.
Dean was way too obnoxious and loud and rude and innapropriate, as he seems to not have any awareness of other people at all....but we do have to let him out of his cage on occasion so we have to deal with it. :) Then it was over. Yeah! Tonight we are having a BBQ at Grandma's house so Callie get's 2 birthday parties. Happy 11th birthday, Callie Rosaline Jackson Brown Stink-pot Pooka Turkey-baster Bottom Preston!
Dean was late, but he got there about 5:45. Olivia, our neighbor, came and voiced her concerns about storm clouds above. I reassured her that it was not going to rain. She was worried about being in the pool with lightening. I told her that a storm wasn't in the forecast, and if it did start to strike, they would make everyone get out of the pool. No sooner had the sentence left my mouth when they announced the pool was now closed and everyone must leave at once. We got in just over 1/2 an our of swimming and Dean got 10 whole minutes of swimming- with no refunds, might I add! You tell me- is 30 minutes of swimming worth $46?!
While we were standing in the lobby waiting for half our party to get out of the showers, the manager (I'm assuming, because she acted like she was in charge), very rudely announced to all of us still in the lobby "PLEASE exit our building NOW!" What? You are kidding, right? We just paid you $46 for 30 minutes of swimming and now you are being RUDE? And the last time I checked, the tax payers own that building, not YOU! I've got issues with bad customer service!
We all shuffled out of cranky pool and headed to the Big Toy, while I wondered how to kill 2 full hours! The cake wasn't even there yet because Brian was bringing it at 7:15 and he wasn't answering his phone. Everyone was hungry and thirsty....so I decided to order Papa John's Pizza and some pop. I told the order taker "Can you please bring us cups because we are at the park and we can't drink the pop without them." He assured me he would bring cups. Again I reminded him, "Please don't forget the cups!" They brought the pizza 30 minutes later and 2-liter of Coke...and no cups. I said, "Please tell me you brought the cups." "It wasn't on the ticket," he says. Hmmm...I'm thinking if I was delivering 2 pizzas and a 2 liter to a birthday party in the park, I would not expect them to pass it around and each take a swig, but that's just me. Brian showed up with the cake and I hoped in the van and drove 3 blocks to the baby store and brought cups back with me. Everyone was greatful for food, we at the cake, and the kids played until their parents came.
Dean was way too obnoxious and loud and rude and innapropriate, as he seems to not have any awareness of other people at all....but we do have to let him out of his cage on occasion so we have to deal with it. :) Then it was over. Yeah! Tonight we are having a BBQ at Grandma's house so Callie get's 2 birthday parties. Happy 11th birthday, Callie Rosaline Jackson Brown Stink-pot Pooka Turkey-baster Bottom Preston!
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