A day at my mom's pool...

For some reason unknown to me, I always forget my mom has a super fabulous pool in her back yard with free admission anytime I want to come and play with my friends.  Last weekend I decided to invite both of Smap's brothers (Jay and Alex) and their wives (Leslie and Kate), and Jay and Leslie's little one (Anna) over for a day in the pool.  Luckily my mom had a camera and captured a few cute shots of my favorite beautiful niece.  

We played in the pool ALL day long.  Lucky for us, Jay loves to invent stupid pool games, so all of us including my mom and Sam (my stepdad) laughed the day away while trying to jump through a hole in the middle of a float while trying to catch a ball.  I wish we had some shots from that because it was pretty funny.

Anyway, while we played all day in my mom's pool, Smap worked all day at Haw Ridge to get the race course ready for the Haw Ridge XC race the following day on Sunday.  Unfortunately he got bit by something and it really made him sick.  He started getting feverish Saturday night and on Sunday (race day) he was pretty much delirious.  I took over his race responsibilities with the help of Alex and Kate, and he went home and suffered the worse case of a dirty bug bite I have ever seen.  Stupid us didn't take his temperature until Monday morning (good thing I didn't go into the medical profession), and Smap's temp was 103.4.  We got him into see our doctor and the doc was mystified by his symptoms.  My dad being a retired ER doc pretty much summed it up to be the dirty bug bite since he does have a suspicious red bite on his shin...and the very swollen lymph node on his leg pretty much spelled it out.  Thank goodness for modern medicine (although I am sure Smap would have much rather taken something homeopathic because that is how he is).  The antibiotic has cleared him up and he is feeling much better...finally after several days of pretty much the worst he has ever felt in his whole life (he actually said this).

So, I have one more week of freedom before I go back to school!  It is about time!  I am ready for school to get back so I can get another summer off!  Ha!

Peace