When we arrived, there was sort of a cheer competition when the Lightning (who used to be called the Waterlogs) did their team cheer then, of course, we had to do our team cheer EVEN LOUDER (GO WATERDEVILS)!! The kids swam then they had a "Hambone" race where the best swimmers in each age group for each team then each of the coaches did a relay. It was like five minutes of screaming and cheering. We lost the meet (they were deeper than us in the upper ages) but won the hambone. It was an actual hambone from a pig that someone had bronzed in the 70's. Gross!
The last event was the parent races. Boy was that fun! Parents first did traditional strokes (very funny to see how old the parents in Marin are...I thought some Grandmas were racing but they were Moms!), then the parents did a ridiculous relay involving one parent pulling another on a floaty. The pulling parent had to put a jump rope around himself and the one on the float had to hold the jumprope like reins and wear a checkered visor. They had to go all the way to the end of the pool, switch all the equipment with another set of adults who then headed down the pool. Boy was it funny. So many parents are such great sports here!!! Maybe it's because they are older and have lost the "super-cool" but I was so impressed with how jazzed these moms and dads got to do something so silly. It was so fun for the kids!
After the meet, all the kids could jump in and swim and play together for a bit. It was so much fun!! The girls dove off the diving board and swam all over the place. I can't believe how much better their swimming has gotten this summer...and they have had so much fun.
Boy will we miss swim team!! I wish I had gotten more pictures of the festivities but I go some of the girls swimming. Hannah was scared to be swimming in a new pool so I had to stay with her until she dove in for freestyle so I only have her doing backstroke. That lady has a great butterfly but she doesn't want to do it at meets yet. Oh well!
Hannah with a bad case of nerves:
Carolyn doing freestyle:
Hannah backstroking:
Carolyn backstroking--silly kid forgot her goggles but still had a big smile!:
Carolyn doing breaststroke:
Cyrus drew devils on the girls back. I didn't get Carolyn's but this is Hannah's!!
Sam's getting ready to be a swimmer...he is always trying to get in the pool, now he just needs goggles...
The best part of the meets for the girls was playing with their friends. They had so much fun chasing Brenden (the love of their lives) and plotting crazy ways to tease the other boys. Aaaah the life of little girls. This is Haylie. She and Carolyn are both planning to marry Brendan. Only he's Catholic, not Mormon so I don't know if that will be possible.
Just one more cool pic...
2 comments:
Annie you've got some terrific shots of the girls. They will cherish those pics forever. Carolyn and Hannah are so super cool. I hope my little girl grows up to be just a girly AND tough as they are.
Cyrus' art is totally bad to the bone! Maybe he could earn some good side cash at a San Francisco tatoo parlor? Just a thought! :)
Okay and one last comment...where are the pics of you being pulled across the pool in the parents race? Don't tell me you didn't participate or I will be so disappointed in you...shame! :)
Alas, I ddin't participate. You have to be really on top of things to get in on that...you have to sign up weeks in advance and practice with the other goofy parents. I didn't even know about it until too late. If we would be here next year, we'd be all over that competition. Just an aside Dr Greenburg and her husband came out on top in that race...can you imagine that? Very funny.
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