Ok so let me start by saying this is the pool that I have been going to since I was about 3 years old, and my brother was only 8 months old. My family loves the outside, and during the summer we would go basically every day. This pool has become like a second home to me in the decade I've been attending. I have fond memories of running around in the kitty pool trying to make a whirlpool with my friends I had made that day. I remember putting my hands on the hot lights under after sundown in the summer. We all remember messing up the sand pit and Ms. Donna getting mad at us. The lifeguards always telling us to stop hanging on the diving board. Every time we went to the pool we would make a new group of friends. Pretty soon we came to know almost every kid by name and all the lifeguards. Obviously, over the years, new people filtered in and out of the pool but left impressions on me and my brother. I remember Danny, one of the lifeguards, taught me how to dive when I was about 4 years old. Just a few days ago Hailey, a lifeguard who has been there since I was 6, told me that Danny said hello from Florida to me and my brother. some of the old lifeguards who used to work there remember us too, I know one of them now works at P.F. Changs and we see him whenever we go to eat there. I remember Chad had a crush on Hailey (both lifeguards) and we would tease them. Now Alex, a boy who when we first came to this pool (when I was 5, he was only like 11) is now a lifeguard. I have formed bonds with people at the pool that I will never forget. no matter what anyone else says about this pool, it will always be a place where I can call a home away from home.
Sea, age 13 read more