pools and drains

we spent this past weekend up in park city. it was kinda a combination of a happy-one-year-anniversary and we-will-be-apart-an-awful-lot-this-summer kind of trip.

i rather enjoyed it. the best part (besides family togetherness, of course) was the pool. it looked something like this:


except that it was a bit smaller...and retangular...with no palm trees...or ocean nearby...and no slim and trim women wearing bikinis floating on air mattresses (thank goodness). no, only slightly overweight grandparents in this pool. but for me, it may as well have been that pool next to the beach with palm trees overhead. it was so perfect - the smell of chlorine, the hot sun beating down on me...ahhh. summer.

the downside was dallin. well, let me be specific. first, dallin is really too little to enjoy a pool. second, apparently utah laws declare that all persons without control of their bowels must have a swim diaper AND a waterproof swimsuit covering it. well, we knew about the first one. oh well. i suppose it's probably better that way anyway, seeing as he's still pretty little.

speaking of little, he's not really little. he officially weighed in at 14lbs 14oz yesterday, and has gained the nickname "chub-a-lub." for his sake, i hope it doesn't stick. but so far it really seems to suit him, and i can't seem to stop myself.

anyway, back to the pool. i loved it. thank you, jonathan for finding me a place with a pool. i can't wait to get to wal-mart and buy a baby pool. i'll tell people it's for dallin, but you better believe it's for me.

when we got back home, we just kinda puttered around for a bit. eventually i got some dishes done and threw out old leftovers, etc. then i turned my attention to dallin (chub-a-lub). he had some serious eye boogers, so i went to the bathroom to get a clean washcloth out.

that's when i saw it.

our shower was filled with 3-4 inches of black(ish) water. i fully expected an anaconda (or one of it's relatives) to jump out at me. fortunately, no such thing happened.

so i went and awoke jonathan with the news every husband loves to hear upon waking up:

uh, babe? we have a problem....there's black water in the shower. and it smells something awful.

i opted to leave the anaconda part out just in case it was my imagination getting the best of me.

jonathan called the landlord, and tried plunging the drain. it worked.

what was left behind was something you never really expect to see on your shower floor: rice. there was a huge mound of jumbalaya -the very same jumbalaya i had sent down the disposal an hour earlier - mixed with the black gunk that builds up over time in drains. let me tell you, decaying gunk and cajun spices do NOT make a pleasant scent.

my angel husband cleaned it all up, and ensured that the house was aired out.

i wish i could say i learned something from this. but i really haven't. i just wanted to tell someone about it.

that's all.