I used to laugh at those of you who insisted a pool was a necessity for vacation. My response was always that we had one of those at home and when I was on vacation I wanted my toes in the sand. My experience was once of being young and dumb with no one to care for but myself. Vacations consisted of an endless stack of summer reading and plenty of time to catch some z’s. That… was before I had children.
Gulf State Park has always been on the primitive side of beach vacations, but I have never complained. Bike rides, ice cream cones and card games has been the norm for our family trips as long as I could remember. When I heard they were building a pool at the Lake Pavilion, I even chuckled to myself that we would NEVER waste our time at the pool when we could be beach-side. Fast forward to 2011. I have two children – that’s man to man coverage! That means if one adult decides to sleep in, the other (i.e. ME) has a child on each hand. I don’t know about you, but going to the beach for us requires a lot of equipment – I learned fast that we could hop in the car and head to the pool for a few hours and the girls would have a blast. What I wasn’t counting on was the splash pad in all of it’s awesome glory. That, my friends, is what we call a life saver.
