First meet of the summer!

We won!!! 277 to 183. It was pretty cool, since last year we lost to them by 57 points. We got a great start to our season, and it was so much fun! The pool was absolutely terrible though. The water's already gotten warm and the water is salty and murky, you can't see 2 feet in front of your face. At the turn the wall just appears and you're like, "Ahh!" It's a really slow shallow pool (feels really slow after swimming in 7-12 feet water) and the blocks AREN'T ATTACHED TO THE WALL! For backstroke races, the starter had to actually say, "Someone hold the blocks, please" otherwise the blocks would just fall in (on top of you!) when you tried to start.

Here's some pics my mom took with my camera (since I was kinda busy).

Before a swim.

Sean and Joel after an event.

Me with my Indiana-Jones'-alien-imitation swim cap and mad breastroke skillz.

Rachel and Hannah interviewing Maryn with Jessica's voice recorder.

Joel winning butterfly. This has an interesting story. Butterfly is the last of the individual events, and it was the only one that Sean didn't swim. The 13-14 boys on the other team got 2nd and 3rd to Sean in all the other events, and beat Joel (mostly because Joel doesn't do flip turns... a REALLY bad idea). So before this race (in Joel's hearing) the 2 boys in question were saying "Ooh, I feel a first coming" and the other boy says, "Yeah, I feel a second!" And then Joel is so far ahead in this pic that you can't even see them. He beat them pretty bad.

Our 13-14 boys relay team (with 2 11-12's swimming up [yes, that's legal]).

Doing the hand motions to a song from "Annie."

Abby and Hannah smiling... and Rachel F's hand. *shakes finger*

When we heard the score, we pushed Coach in.

And Mr. Y.

Then we played until we were commanded to get out.

On the way home, we were stopped at a red light and a sheriff pulled up next to us. He had a laptop on a swivel arm right next to the steering wheel, and we could see what he was doing..... browsing videos on YouTube. We couldn't quite tell what he was watching though. Good thing no one ran the red light, because he never would have noticed.

~Lizzie