Well, I overcame my fear of public water parks/pools this weekend. Misty and I went to Blue Bayou Water park in Baton Rouge on Saturday. Little pricey, but we had a lot of fun and most importantly, I swam in public and even talked back to this punk security guard who told me to walk back around in the rain to exit the park.
I don't really know where my fear of public pools came from. I took swimming lessons at the City Park Pool, I attended summer birthday parties at pools, but, around my teen years, I just stopped going to public pools. Maybe it was the time my brother pulled down my trunks, or maybe it was the time I lost my summer pool pass and felt sorry for wasting my mom and dad's money, maybe it was because I swam in lakes and ponds and liked the thought of swimming with fish and squishing mud in my toes. I don't really know.
Other highlights from this weekend include....
- Hearing Misty's name on local TV
- Hearing my name on local TV
- Hearing both are names on local TV
- Hearing my brother Ben's name on localTV
- Misty's dog having 5 puppies
- Earning over 1000 tickets at the Arcade in about one hour
- The batting cage
- The self portraits (see photos)
OK, the TV thing, we knew a couple people doing this Cerebral Palsy telethon thing yesterday. It was on Local TV so we called our friends who were taking calls in the background and had them do stupid stuff while we watched on TV. Every so often, our friends would read off who donated and how much. Of course, they filled out cards for us so they read our name. "Misty McElroy pledged $5." "Matt Stamey pledged $5" "Misty and Matt McElroy Pleged $5" Then I had my brother from Kansas Call in... "Ben Stamey from Kansas pledged $10" Quite the way to spend a lazy Sunday morning.
