A day at the pool

Leisure facilities in Benin are few and far between. The beaches are not an option due to the murderous rip-currents that are everywhere, so the only option is the swimming pool at the local hotel, which we can afford to go to every other weekend. Today we joined 50 or 60 other crew at the pool of the Hotel Du Lac, and enjoyed the sunshine and warm water for the first time since early December. It was a lovely day - our big kids went off with the other big kids, and Libby bobbed around all day in her floaties. Noah, Anna and Sally mastered diving off the high diving board (I'll do it next time, I promise!). We arrived back at the ship after 5pm, tired and hungry, to find that the ship had moved 100 feet during the day (at the request of the port authority) and the poor old Deckies had been hard at work all day. Olly