We have just returned from a weekend at a neighboring town to attend LO's 2nd swim meet. For those results-based readers, she did fine, coming in 2nd in her backstroke heat and 1st in butterfly. She swam a 200 freestyle (that's 8 lengths of the pool) and got disqualified for not touching the end firmly with both hands on one turn. This kind of thing is very normal for a beginning swimmer; in fact, we have some girls who have not gotten valid times in any events yet because of DQ's. Swam a total of 8 events; four individuals and 2 relays.
We stayed at a HI Express and sat in (backless) bleachers hip-to-hip with other exhausted but supportive parents. We chatted about every arcane topic our poor chlorine-bleached brains could think of. We ate Chex Mix, Cheezits, cookies, hot dogs, luncheon meat, granola bars, nabs, and my homemade oatmeal cookies. (pretty good, btw. I googled "world's best oatmeal cookie" and found the recipe.) -- all this on top of the free cereal and cinnamon buns the hotel gave us for breakfast. So ready for salad / broccoli / anything without nitrates.
Digital camera is acting up after only 7 years of use, so we took the SLR. Will scan / post pics when Eckerd's gets them done this week.
The proximity to humanity has left us exhausted, crabby and so glad to be home. Proud of LO and glad it's another TWO weeks before we repeat the drill.
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