Swim kitties!!
Nov. 17th, 2007 11:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lordshipmayhemSo tonight, a friend of mine from the ORB club gave me a ride up to a swim a bunch from Newmarket held at a private facility. It was no recreational facility - it was a cross between a training facility and a rehab facility. That meant the larger pool was regulation competition size, and the warm pool (the nice and comfy warmer pool) was geared for aquafitness and aquatic therapy. In addition, the facility had been switched in the last year or so to using salts instead of chlorine, which means my eyes tonight are not their usual red and sore status. I still smell of pool water, only now of salt water instead of chlorine.
I managed to do a few laps of the "cold" pool before deciding it would be a good idea to go back to the warm pool before the night was over.
And this facility had not one but three mascots: jet-black kitties, Ben, Jerry and Cody. (Ben & Jerry, geddit?) Ben is apparently not the pool lover that the other two are, but all like to lap up the salty water and Jerry likes to get quite close to the bathers and get his noggin scratched. The ORB president Apollo brought his two daughters with him; at one point his eight-year-old daughter Jenny caught Ben (to Ben's discomfiture, but he put up with itmankittyfully and didn't complain).
Afterwards, we went to a local restaurant. Normally it's not open that late, but someone from Newmarket had made special arrangements with the owner. Limited menu (two items, chicken on a bun with fries or lasagna with Cesar salad), and not terribly fancy, but Tom's put on a nice feast after the evening's swimming.
Next Saturday is the Wave Pool adventure with the ORB club up in Richmond Hill. A lot of the Newmarket crew will be there as well. It promises to be a lot of fun.
I managed to do a few laps of the "cold" pool before deciding it would be a good idea to go back to the warm pool before the night was over.
And this facility had not one but three mascots: jet-black kitties, Ben, Jerry and Cody. (Ben & Jerry, geddit?) Ben is apparently not the pool lover that the other two are, but all like to lap up the salty water and Jerry likes to get quite close to the bathers and get his noggin scratched. The ORB president Apollo brought his two daughters with him; at one point his eight-year-old daughter Jenny caught Ben (to Ben's discomfiture, but he put up with it
Afterwards, we went to a local restaurant. Normally it's not open that late, but someone from Newmarket had made special arrangements with the owner. Limited menu (two items, chicken on a bun with fries or lasagna with Cesar salad), and not terribly fancy, but Tom's put on a nice feast after the evening's swimming.
Next Saturday is the Wave Pool adventure with the ORB club up in Richmond Hill. A lot of the Newmarket crew will be there as well. It promises to be a lot of fun.
