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It’s September: final pool update and memories of pools I have loved

catherine w

Hi readers and Happy first day of September! It’s time:

  • Time to turn from vacation-mode to at-home-and-working mode
  • Time to shift (gently) into the fall season
  • Time to get back to work
  • Time to check out of this hotel where I’m speed-writing my blog post

It’s been such a fun week visiting Canadian friends, vacationing with American friends, and enjoying the refreshing water of (great) lakes, quarries and hotel pools.

Just this morning, Norah and I headed to our hotel pool before going our separate ways (me back to Boston, her back to her rental cottage on Lake Huron for another week– lucky duck!). But we couldn’t leave without trying out this pool and its big green slide:

In real-pool like, there were kids, us, a nice lifeguard, and lots of sound effects from everyone going down this surprisingly fast green spiral slide.
In real-pool like, there were kids, parents, us, a nice lifeguard, and lots of sound effects from everyone going down this surprisingly fast green spiral slide.

I’ll be back on my regular non-hotel-pool beat for Fit is a Feminist Issue starting this week. But as I check out and roar down the New York State Thruway, please enjoy this post about the silliest hotel pool I ever experienced (thus far; I’m always looking for other contenders, so do let me know if you have intel).

Catherine finds joy in exotic hotel pools

Published by catherine w

I'm a feminist public health ethicist (yes, that's a thing). I'm interested in heath behavior change, particularly around eating and activity, and how things other than knowledge affect our health decisions.I'm also a cyclist (road, sort-of-off-road, commuter), regular yoga-doer, occasional swimmer and kayaker and leisurely social walker.