Grace and I go regularly go swimming at the gym, and, like everything, it has its rituals. Most of them happen after the swim. First its the shower to get warm after a swim, which includes "pick up, pick up" so that I can hold her under the spray. Quickly into her towel, then "something eat, drink some juice," but before that some clothes, followed by some hair drying underneath the hand dryer in the changing rooms. Then sit on a chair, demolish a juice, devour a snack, ready to go. Out the pool room, throw the juice box away, and go and stare into the kiddies play area. Off we go, out the door, crunch, crunch, crunch across the pathway stones and back to the car. Music! And we're on our way home.