Today was our first swim meet of the season. We had to drive to Trophy Club and I knew that meant getting up early, so I had the car packed and ready to go last night just for good measure. I checked the website for Reed's warm up time and and after looking at the map, decided we needed to leave between 5:15 an 5:30. That seemed obscenely early to me, but instead of double checking, we went to bed, got up and headed out. The short of it is that we got to the pool AN HOUR EARLY. I am not kidding. I felt like such a goober because if I would have thought about it logically, the out of town people always have warm-up right before the meet so they don't have to leave so early. My family was not pleased. On the up side, we got to see this beautiful sunrise on the drive up...
Both my nieces are swimming with the Seals, so we all congregate under our canopy each Saturday. It's like a fun little party. :)
Hudson relaxing with Dad (the way he's sitting totally cracks me up).
Hudson didn't swim in this meet because I want him to easily make it down the length of the pool (please see this post about his tryout if you aren't sure what I mean). Hopefully after a few weeks of practice, he will be able to do a race. Here is Reed on the block ready for his first race...
He moved up in age groups this year, so now he's on the younger end of his group. I was afraid that he wouldn't place as high and he would start to get discouraged. After his first race, he was very discouraged. He touched the wall, looked around and saw he was last in his heat and started to shake his head. When we got the results, he saw that he had placed 7th our of 13 and seemed to have a better attitude about it. His next race was the backstroke and he placed 6th. His last race was his favorite - the 25 freestyle. He placed 5th and beat his best time from last year by 7 seconds! He was very pleased! We got in the car to head home and Hudson went to sleep in about 20 minutes.
It took Reed a little longer, but he finally gave in too.
I guess that's what happens when you drag your kids out of bed unnecessarily before the sun is even up. Shocking. :)
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