Kathy mentioned (in her previous comment) that I might want to bring a swim suit on our trip to Yellowstone.
There's this tiny problem. I don't have the same figure I did when I was 18 and the one swim suit I've had for a couple of decades shows it. So NO swimsuit!
My figure now is a bit more like the one I had a few months before my daughter was born.
I have skinny wrists and ankles. People assume the rest of me is proportional. That's because I cover up what I prefer to be kept hidden.
Tiffany just e-mailed me to say her husband was treating us to a hotel during our trip that would be right next to a water park because KC loves playing in water. "Don't forget to pack a swim suit," she says.
Siiiiigh....
Tiffany mentioned a while ago that a tankini might be what I'm looking for. It's like a bikini but there's a skirt dropping from the bra top to hide that part of me that ummmm... gets to places ahead of me.
So today Art and I shopped at the Navy Exchange to look for a suit. There was one...only one possibility there. It cost $29.00 so I figured it was worth a try. That's the suit on the left.
We also stopped at Target. Nope! Nothing there I could even consider.
I was feeling like Cathy in that cartoon strip who always struggled with buying a swim suit every spring. Those mirrors in the dressing rooms are very unforgiving and way too honest.
A couple of hours later, we happened to be at Ross and actually found another tankini. It was a Jantzen with an $89.00 price tag reduced to $19.00.
When we got home, I modeled them for Art and he said as tactfully as he could that the Ross suit on the right seemed to fit better. The bottom had a skirt that was rather modest and the bodice skirt was fuller unlike the one on the left. You can't tell from the photo, I suppose, but there was NO WAY I was going to have Art take a photo of me in them to illustrate the proof of it for this post.
If you get right down to it, I suppose I was trying to find a bathing suit like this. Unfortunately, neither Walmart nor Macy's carries this anymore.
Ah well... I'm ready for that water park with KC now.
I hope the hotel provides big towels.
There's this tiny problem. I don't have the same figure I did when I was 18 and the one swim suit I've had for a couple of decades shows it. So NO swimsuit!
My figure now is a bit more like the one I had a few months before my daughter was born.I have skinny wrists and ankles. People assume the rest of me is proportional. That's because I cover up what I prefer to be kept hidden.
Tiffany just e-mailed me to say her husband was treating us to a hotel during our trip that would be right next to a water park because KC loves playing in water. "Don't forget to pack a swim suit," she says.
Siiiiigh....
Tiffany mentioned a while ago that a tankini might be what I'm looking for. It's like a bikini but there's a skirt dropping from the bra top to hide that part of me that ummmm... gets to places ahead of me.
So today Art and I shopped at the Navy Exchange to look for a suit. There was one...only one possibility there. It cost $29.00 so I figured it was worth a try. That's the suit on the left.
We also stopped at Target. Nope! Nothing there I could even consider.
I was feeling like Cathy in that cartoon strip who always struggled with buying a swim suit every spring. Those mirrors in the dressing rooms are very unforgiving and way too honest.
A couple of hours later, we happened to be at Ross and actually found another tankini. It was a Jantzen with an $89.00 price tag reduced to $19.00.When we got home, I modeled them for Art and he said as tactfully as he could that the Ross suit on the right seemed to fit better. The bottom had a skirt that was rather modest and the bodice skirt was fuller unlike the one on the left. You can't tell from the photo, I suppose, but there was NO WAY I was going to have Art take a photo of me in them to illustrate the proof of it for this post.
If you get right down to it, I suppose I was trying to find a bathing suit like this. Unfortunately, neither Walmart nor Macy's carries this anymore.
Ah well... I'm ready for that water park with KC now.
I hope the hotel provides big towels.
