You want me to swim where?

A view of the whole little lake

It had a diving board too (Chandler probably made Mady go first!)

Cleaning off the lake scum

We took a trip to Oklahoma and Kansas for two weeks at the beginning of July this year. It's about 1000 miles from Arizona so we made it a two day drive.
On the second day we stopped in Santa Rosa, NM for lunch. We passed a park and thought we would get out there to eat and let the kids play. Once we were at the park, we saw a big waterslide in the distance. Justin drove over to get a closer look, and we realized that the slide went into this little lake. Santa Rosa is known for the "Blue Hole" which is like 80 something feet deep, and only scuba divers can use it. This little lake was right around the corner, and the water was really clear too.
We pull up to the lake and Chandler the city boy says, "We're supposed to swim in there?!" Justin and I looked at each other and decided that it would be fun. When I was a kid I loved water. Anything having to do with water would have made me excited. I would have been BEGGING my parents to let me out of the car. My kids were a little more tentative. They did end up enjoying themselves, but Chandler was on the lookout for things that might get him the whole time!