The Start of Summer Swimming and Other Things

Yesterday we went to the Rec Center to get our pool passes, having in mind that we would go to the pool afterwards. While we were there, we found out that the summer-long swimming started next Monday, not yesterday. So we got our passes anyway. We then took Melissa to someone's house so she could clean for them. After we went home, we went to a friend's apartment pool. It was nice, because no one was there, and also nice because it's a great pool, with a waterfall and both deep and shallow areas. And there was also a baby pool with a fountain. It was great to be able to still go to a pool, because Clara was disappointed at first that we wouldn't be able to swim.
So here are some pictures of us at the pool. You might be wondering how I got so close to them while they were in the water, but I'll confess that I 'borrowed' Melissa's camera and went in the water with it. Now Melissa is fine with it, but she said I should be careful. But it was safe and didn't get wet at all.

Clara coming up from the water.

Mom under the waterfall.

Amy wearing goggles.

A self-portrait of myself, not realizing it was on zoom.

Clara about to hit the water in a cannonball.


Clara's expression here is so funny, it's like she thinks she is about to get sprayed in the face.

Clara was happy that we were able to swim.

June 1 was Mom and Dad's 23rd anniversary of being married, so I thought it was fitting to put some pictures of them.

These were taken when Uncle David, Auntie Charlotte, and Jason were taking pictures with us.
For their anniversary they went out to dinner at an Indian restaurant called Ruchi Palace. I had Dad's leftovers for lunch today, Goat Biriyani, and it was really good, although it was spicy. But I guess that is to be expected.
I didn't make them a card, so I said that the apple pie I made was their gift.
We made quiche from a recipe that Melissa made up. It was really good. Since the pie crust recipe made two crusts, I had a crust left over. We were going to make a raspberry pie, but that needed two crusts and we had never made it before, and had nothing to top it with, like cream or something. So I made a French Apple Pie from the Betty Crocker cookbook. It only uses one crust, and there is a butter/flour/brown sugar topping on it. Because our oven cooks hot, I didn't need to cook it so long, so it was a little burnt. It was still good! (Delicious, says Mom!)

Amy had been working as a barista at the Starbucks in a Kroger, but was transferred to being a cashier at Kroger, but now is filling in at the Starbucks and is hopefully going to be transferred back to being at Starbucks. This is really an answer to prayer because cashiering is hard on her shoulders, and being a barista is really what she enjoys more.

Here are also some garden pictures.

Some tomatoes

The beans as they climb

Melissa's dill

a radish

A cucumber flower

Melissa smelling the basil she picked. We made pesto with it and it was really good.

On Friday Clara is leading a badge with some Juniors. It is Art in 3-D. So we made some abstract sculptures with legos, and she was making clay for them to mold. They will also make soap sculptures.

Wow, that was a really long post. I have been working on it for several days, and keep taking pictures I want to add, so maybe that's why.