Wildwood Crest: Travel guide, prices and free housing · 2026

OEOlga Emelianovaolenenok · Jul 24, 2013Read

Sunshine! At the hotel, Kristina barely got in our way; we worked calmly and slowly. Since yesterday evening, my headache hasn't gone away, and I felt a bit sorry for myself. Thank God, we managed almost without any screw-ups. I really need to catch up on sleep and... catch up on writing. A diary is probably what I was missing. Maybe it was the sunshine giving me strength, or the realization of having the evening off. Tomorrow, Sonya plans to tell Kristina that she won't be working anymore. Honestly, I'm scared. I'm afraid of how this might reflect on me. The hotel needs extra hands right now, and badly. What if Kristina doesn't pay me so that Sonya stays? Or says that until we train another girl, Sonya can't leave? In short, I'm worried here, not so much for Sonya, but that Kristina might think poorly of me. Selfish? Yes, but I still have to work with her. All the vacationers are Polish or Russian. There seems to be only one room with Americans. For some reason, people think we are Polish too. And they talk to us in Polish. We understand maybe just a few words. And to their indignant looks, I now boldly say: "My grandmother is a half polish, so I know only some words". Check-outs, service, and CHAIRS! We are already pros, we guess for ourselves what's coming. Good weather, little work – we confidently tackle the chairs and the sprinkler! Good weather, lots of work – just the chairs! Why clean them every other day??! They don't get any dirtier or cleaner. Finally, we found time to find out everything about the pool. It's 5 minutes from the hotel. Joseph Von Savage Memorial Pool is located at 8800 New Jersey Avenue – Wildwood Crest. On the agenda: can we get a job there (relevant only for Sonya), can we come to swim? (cool for both of us). We walked up and read the sign with the schedule. We understood almost nothing. Through the glass doors, you can see the pool itself: small, under a glass ceiling, 3 or 4 lanes. Well, maybe 15 meters at most. Children and adults are swimming. We went inside and got all the necessary information at the administrator's window. No vacancies. You can swim, the pleasure costs 5 bucks for entry, it seems. You can visit when there are no special classes: weekdays 12:30-2:30 PM, 7:00 to 9:00 PM. Weekends 12 – 4:45. Well, what can I say? Sonya was happy!!!!!!!! And so what about this job, fewer problems! But Sonya was thrilled about the opportunity to swim! We've been living on the coast for a month now, and there's no opportunity to swim. Strange, right? Yes, it's the ocean, baby! The whole way back we discussed who would wear which swimsuit, who would take goggles... Well, just typical conversations! It's hot outside, it's a day off, what to do? Such an issue: I want to go to the movies, to a Chinese buffet, and to the beach. You don't know what's better. I've become problematic again, worrying about how to do things better so I won't regret it later. It even became offensive! Life has turned into workdays, some kind of race again... as if it were Moscow! I don't want to, I don't want to, I don't want to! I'm resting from problems here! And with that mood, plus a tasty soup for lunch and tea with lemon, we decided not to buy food and not to cook together anymore. A turbulent stream of thoughts? Yes? Not at all, we love to stir up trouble. We spent the whole day doing just that. We decided to go drop off our things at the laundromat, and while they were washing, run to the supermarket. There were a lot of things, some say take 2 detergent pods, some say it'll be fine as is. In the end, I listened to myself, and I had to go back for one more when we realized how many things we had. 36 minutes appeared on the display. 36 minutes to buy food, which was destined to be spent only by me, and very, very hastily. In the end, I spent $25, Anya $32, Sonya $16. The set is roughly the same for everyone: porridge for breakfast, potatoes, vegetables, something for tea, sugar, milk. Well, let's try to live like thi