One of my favorite parts of summer is spending time at the pool. Wonder Boy and I are longtime members of our local YMCA, which we like because it is a little renegade so we don’t feel any need to look pretty while we work out. Unfortunately, it doesn’t have a pool. Last summer we made a wonderful discovery … one we should have known. When you join the YMCA, you are a member of every. YMCA. In. the. country. That includes ones with pools!

So next weekend we will begin our weekly trek to the other side of town, where we don’t know anyone who might see us in our bathing suits, and enjoy time at the pool. And this pool? It has a waterslide!

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