Finding places to swim

It has been 38° many days this week. We are constantly looking for ways to cool down. Sometimes, that's avoiding the city during the day. Often, that's looking for a place to swim!

We have had many funny experiences trying to swim. The first time we saw swam, the pool was about to close, but we begged our way into the pool. In the end, they didn't charge us, but we had only ten minutes to be there so it was far from relaxing.

Another time we scoped out a small set of lakes, pivate access only, then a gentleman said we could jump off his dock, so we got changed, and when we went to the edge of the dock, it was a scungy fishing pond.

Later that day, we found a lake that was good for swimming and ended up at a run down resort-ish where there were rotten parts on the deck, and the ladders to climb out of the lake were lashed together. At another part of that lake, we went to the next day there was so much garbage that it was hard to find a place to sit. There was even garbage in the water on our way into the lake. We ended up moving to a better spot!

Sadly, garbage in natural places is quite common in Romania. This was a good learning for the kids, as we talked about what the mindset behind all of this trash. Another step in helping the kids grow their critical thinking!Read more