Yesterday our little one graduated from the Starfish programme at the Beban Pool in Nanaimo. The final act of courage for your intrepid duo was a trip down the big water slide. To be honest, we (I) had been looking forward to this lesson for quite some time. I love water slides and the chance to take the little one down with me was very exciting. I am proud to say that we went down three times and enjoyed it each time. The instructor was great and encouraged everyone to go - and everyone did. Now we can go find some water-parks (and no, Vancouver doesn't count).My thoughts on the whole Starfish programme are very positive. Both of the instructors that we had were very friendly and seemed to really enjoy teaching the littlest students. Most importantly it gave me an opportunity to discover what kind of limits and boundaries there are in taking a baby to the pool, and to my surprise those boundaries are further than I expected. So, it gave me confidence to do things in the water and the appreciation that my baby is tougher than I thought.
Photo by Hans Hillewaert. This starfish was sampled on the Belgian Continental Shelf in 2000.
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