A couple of days ago we were driving past Greenaway Park around 1 or 2 in the afternoon. We noticed a lot of people in the swimming pool and a bunch of people lined up around the fence. We kind of wondered what was going on because it didn't look like anything structured like swimming lessons were going on. We wondered if the pool was at capacity and the people lining up had to wait until some swimmers left. Also the pool was open earlier than I noted in a blog last month. I double checked the City of Surrey's website, link is on that other blog, and indeed the hours have changed so they are open early afternoon.
This morning I was talking to my neighbor who sometimes brings his daughters to swim there and I told him the hours seem to be hit and miss and he agreed that is true. Whether its because someone hasn't shown up for work to open the pool or during hotter weather they open it if there's available staff he wasn't sure. But he knew about the line up. You get half an hour to swim and then you go outside and line up to come back into the pool if you still want to go swimming. He doesn't like going there because Greenaway Pool is so cold and doesn't like having the half hour line ups to swim.
I told him that pool was ice cold when I was a kid and we didn't line up for it back then. Quite the opposite. I begged my mother not to let me swim in that pool because I swore a dump truck had just poured in a load of ice cubes.
Due to the tennis court construction at Greenaway Park, pool patrons are being told to park in the east end of the Fraser Downs parking lot.
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