splashing away..

Saturated with studies, my cousin took a short break and headed home some few days back. She came back yesterday fully charged up. Both of us being pretty "healthy" (as in being wrong side of the scale), we decided to go everyday for swimming and even filled up the form and other formalities. And, today morning we were all geared up to swim diligently.
We reached the pool sometime around 8 am to find it totally crowded. People were pushing each other trying to pull off their strokes. This scene hit us bad since we were expecting the pool to be empty. Anyways, we decided to wait for sometime in the hope that people would start leaving. Now, waiting for thirty minutes in other circumstances would be a huge issue for me, but I totally enjoyed watching people swim today. Once inside the pool, we do not generally notice the strokes of people around unless of course they are way too obvious. However, the scene from outside the pool is pretty amusing I must say.
There was this couple, must be recently married. The husband was showing off all his strokes to his wife who was watching him with pride, smiling all the time. I was wondering whether the wife was smiling because she was really proud of him, or because he was making such a fool of himself! Then, there were these bunch of guys. The normal kind who like showing off, checking out the girls at the pool. Thinking about them makes me smile now. It seemed that all the guys were in the shallow side of the pool and the girls were towards the deep end. The guys were trying to show off to the girls hopelessly when in fact the girls could swim better than them.
There was this little girl around three years of age who was too scared to even touch the water. Her mother was trying to convince that poor kid by pointing towards other kids in the pool her age.
It is amazing how people try to swim with all the force in their body. I mean, we could practically hear the grunt and the noise from their mouth, nose and throat alongwith the vigorous splashing.
Watching all these, I lost track of the time. It was only when the lifeguard blew the whistle that I realised that it was now our turn to swim and for other people to watch us :) ...