I'll post one more time my final opinion, then I'll try to stop responding unless something really annoys me(which is highly probable). LOL
I still believe that many naysayers that have posted in absolute shock are unclear as to what *I* am talking about. Some not, but still.
I realize how disturbing it sounds to simply post and read, "Hey, dh and I are leaving our sleeping kids in the hotel room to go for a swim. Woohoo!"
A picture has been posted of the exact location where rooms are not more than a few feet from the water. Where pool chairs and tables are within touching distance of hotel doors. Where hanging on the edge of a *quiet* quiet pool, facing the door, and speaking with someone in a normal voice could be heard by someone standing in the hotel room door. I have been there before. I have seen it.
That brings me to the whole "swimming" thing. I should have used another word, I guess, in my OP, though I have clarified many times.
Dh and I won't be taking laps, or doing somersaults under water. We wouldn't be back floating in the middle of the pool or giggling like 16yo's while necking unawares. We will be hanging on the edge of the pool facing the door, soaking our weary bones and feet, enjoying the weather and coolness of the pool after a long day.
If you don't understand hanging on the pool edge, here are some visuals...not us of course, but you get the idea.
*Note that these people above are not swimming.
If my children wake up, it would take me less time to unhang myself from the pool edge and
walk to the door then the time it would take me to walk from my kitchen to my kids bedrooms at home. Honestly, the doors are so close to the pool, that I would actually feel fine to leave it propped open while "dipping". I just don't see the point in that, but that must tell you that I would be close enough to see if someone were to stroll in or out of my open hotel room door, and even close enough to lob my cell phone through the open door from the pool edge and hit my kid in the head with it LOL, or I wouldn't consider it. Which means all of the mad crazy
"scenarios" being posted aren't really relevant.
I'm not sure how else some of you want me to respond.
If I respond to your incorrect assumptions, you say I am making excuses. If I say that I posted because I was curious of the responses, you say I am trying to appease my own guilt because I must truly feel this isn't a good idea, when that is not true. Of course, I figured this may be a controversial topic. I figured the answers would be black or white and wanted to hear them for the heck of it. It is amusing and fun at times, reading the responses. Isn't that why we are on boards and forums a lot of the times?
As far as the bad mother comments, well, I realize we are online and I take
comments such as these from strangers that don't me at all, with a grain of salt. It's all good. I am not offended. :good vibes
And again, at this point in time, we are booked at POP. I've never been there,
but from what everyone but one person has said on here, there are no rooms comparable to the ones at CBR and CSR. So the whole thing is moot and I won't be getting my hopes up to "dip" and float my very large pregnant self for a few minutes in the evening hours with my dh.
I will still however, likely be sitting directly outside my door with dh chatting with a baby monitor,
if we don't feel like sleeping yet or sitting in the dark eating cheese fries while the kids sleep.
Though still, I realize that some of you would still think that sitting up against the closed hotel
room door outside, is a neglectful horrendous thing.
All I can say to that, is that I am thankful that we are the parents of our
children and not you.
. In your initial post, I pictured two carefree adults possibly a little tipsy, frolicking in the water while their defenseless children napped in the room w/o proper adult supervision. Maybe this is a lesson to all of us to be more specific 
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. Have a good trip!
