The Best Day of Swimming Ever

This afternoon I decided to take Will, Jess, and Zoe to Sumner Community Pool for their 2-3:30 family fun swim--about 30 min. away. It became clear after awhile that traffic was REALLY slow. I thought this was due to the road resurfacing that has been happening on our main road out of Orting. But it was some kind of accident or something, and at a certain point, traffic was NOT COMING OR GOING. It was just about 2:00, but I thought, I'll turn around and go right at Military Rd. and try to find my way over there. But Military Rd was truly blocked due to resurfacing. There was no time or justification to do a really long roundabout. Sooooo, we turned around toward home again. But, I thought, I'll salvage this and we'll go to the river, where we had some nice times in the summer last year. Plus, it's free. After stopping at McDonald's to change in the bathroom and get starving people burgers, we head to the river. Of course, they're resurfacing that road, too, and there are monstrous vehicles parked where we normally park. So, we turn around and park in a place where we have to walk around a mile to get to our spot. We walk and walk and get there. The river seems low and the mud in the region is excessively squishy. But we didn't go this far to turn around yet, right? Everybody strips down and finds long ways around the mud to get to the good part. And the water is so cold and the air only 70 degrees, that one's feet ache after a short time in the water. Get out, walk around, maybe get used to it? Nothin doin. Time to call it a day. I'm wearing flip flops, and there is this one spot that is SO SOFT, that I just sink and fall directly to my knees. I'm carrying my bag and what's left of my drink. I have mud up to my thighs, but I keep everything from dumping and even my shorts mud-free. It must have looked really funny, but I was not too happy at the time. What a truly disappointing time. I think I'll move to Australia.
And then I was going to make devilled eggs for dinner, and when I removed the shell, it pulled off tons of white, on every egg. So the eggs looked like they had been assaulted by hungry voles. So we had egg salad with biscuits instead. Weird. I did actually see a vole like creature on our way out of the slough of despond. It was a good sized mole, I believe, and it swam from the water into a tunnel in the mud!