Fun in the Water

I love this little swimming hole/ pond at the Penn Valley park. We spent many a summer day there growing up. We had fun going there last week with cousins! Nolan had a blast climbing around the rocks like a turtle. He was gettin pretty brave. :P Annika loved it too! I love in the video starting at 2:47...silly girl.

At one point we were over by those metal tunnels where the water comes pouring out and into the pond. The kids loved walking across and feeling the rush of the water. They went across over and over again. Annika loved splashing in it. The water was pretty strong so I really had to keep an eye on Nolan to make sure it didn't whoosh him out. Well, as I was hanging on to Annika for a while, I realized after a minute or two I hadn't seen Nolan come through for some time. I took a look at all my surroundings and didn't see him. I took ANOTHER good look...still didn't see him anywhere. I started to panic a little. Having a lost kid is one thing...having a lost kid near water is another...I started to ask everyone, HAVE YOU SEEN NOLAN??? over and over. He was nowhere! AHHHHH! Now I was really panicking. I looked into the water where it drops off from the sidewalk to see if he was underneath. I couldn't see him. I even popped my head through one of those tunnels and still no Nolan. I handed Annika to my Dad and was seconds from jumping into the pond, fully clothed. All of a sudden Nolan pops out of one of the tunnels. AHHHH! I just had to look in the wrong one. He had walked across the road to the other side and gone through. It was partly my fault. He saw some other kids doing it and I told him how fun it was when I used to do that when I was younger...:P I gave him the idea. I was a little surprised he hadn't told me where he was going. That isn't normally something Nolan would do. Oh well, now he knows!