LBI...

Dear Nicky,

Today you had another great swim lesson that you loved. The teacher is so great with you, and she adores you as much as you adore her. The thing I don't like is the location, with its crowded locker rooms that stink, to the moderately affluent yuppies with their pricey haircuts. The swimming pool area itself is my idea of sensory overload: it's hot and loud and windowless, blazingly bright with fluorescent lights. But I endure it for you. And after your swim lesson we drove down to LBI to look at a house for possible rental this summer at the end of August. It was nice but pricey as is everything down there, and in close proximity to a condemned building. Weird. It was a long drive for not such a productive afternoon. Oh well, it was all your mother's idea.

Love,
Dad