Before you see the swim club,here is our old club....

Club Dalton Common!



Several weeks ago we had a pretty severe heat wave with temps around 100 degrees! Deanna and I felt so bad for the kids they were melting. We went to Rite Aid and bought this pool that as you can see is only knee deep for most of the kids. We thought forget about the homeowners association and used three hoses to fill it up. The kids obviously really couldn't swim in it so they ran from several feet away and jumped in, or slid in. They loved it, and we did get a warning the first time we set it up on our side. So the next few times we did it on Deanna's side. No tattle-tell (is that the correct spelling?) neighbors there, since she hasn't had a warning. So anyways now you see why we are excited to have the pool membership finally. Although all the kids in the Dalton Common hood were very excited about this pool, we may have retired it.

4th of July

We had been so undecisive about what to do for the 4th. We didn't really want to go anywhere, so we ended up heading to the swim club. It was insane! I guess being "rookies" we didn't know what we were getting into. The pool was open and free to the whole neighborhood and they had their own parade where they decorate bikes,cars, dogs whatever they could and they vote on the best. Then the pool had besides tons of people, music, and some competitions. Anyways we were shocked by the crowd, and pulled up a small piece of grass and swam for a little. Then at night we headed to Norm's mom's house in Newark.(Fremont doesn't allow fireworks) We had made such last minute plans that we got our fireworks at 8:45pm. The good news is they were ready to wheel and deal to get rid of them. We had fun doing them and watching all the illegal ones around us! Happy 4th to you all.