The synchronized swimming meet...

This last Friday we went to the City's synchronized swimming routine championships meet. It is the final culmination of routines that the girls have been practicing since the beginning of the summer. Some of these girls have been swimming for a couple years, but it's mostly everyone's first time doing "Synchro".

Here is the promised video of Sidney's trio doing their "Swing" synchronized swim routine. And the family was all there to see it this time. Even if it was a blazing 112 degrees.

They really did a great job! So good in fact that they placed 1st in their age division for trios!!! Sidney was ecstatic!!! (It must have been the cute hair piece! JK!)




Here is Sidney's team group that performed to various "American" themed songs. It is pretty windy, so the music is harder to hear.

They ended up with 3rd place for their team. They were thrilled!!!



Here is Sidney with her winnings... a blue ribbon for her 1st place trio, a medal for her 3rd place team, and a rose from her coach. We're so excited for her!




She will probably join the recreational team for the Desert Dolphins. Check them out here: http://www.azdolphins.com/, they even have a blog where you can watch routines from their recent Nationals trip to Florida.

Just missed it...

So, Sidney has been taking a synchronized swimming class through the City's recreation program for the summer. She really enjoys it. This last Friday was the first time they would get to perform their routines at a qualifying meet to see if they go on to the championship meet. So, I took Sidney on Friday, they finished getting ready and warmed up. Here she is with the other girls in her trio...




Sidney is on the far right. Don't they look great!!

*Side note: I made the belts and the hair pieces for their routine. They turned out way better than I expected them to. Here's a close-up of the hair-piece.

So, back to the routine meet...John and Hayden and my mom were waiting at home because it was unbearably hot and we didn't know when Sidney was going to perform. When I saw the list, Sidney and her trio were performing 4th to last. So I asked one of her coaches how long the meet was supposed to last, and she told me until about 8 pm. So I made some assumptions and thought that she might be performing around 7:30 or so. I called John at home to let him know. They were going to come later without waiting in the heat. Also, the pool is about 30 minutes away from our house.

Needless to say, something else came up and I had to run home shortly after the meet got started. I told Sidney I would be back in an hour. Traffic and road construction hindering me along the way, I didn't arrive back at the pool until about 6:40 pm. To my utter surprise, the parking lot, the bleachers and especially the pool were deserted. Only a handful of people were left putting away stuff from the meet. My poor Sidney performed without us being able to watch. We were all very shocked and very sad. Thankfully, a good friend took some photos of Sidney during the routine that I'll get later.

Fortunately, Sidney's trio placed 3rd and she will be performing next week at the championship meet. We won't be missing this one, in fact, I will be sure to record the whole thing on the camera. And just for the record, many people said it was the fastest meet they'd been to.

Doing some catch-up with a summer slide show.

I have been a serious blog slacker. We have been having a fun busy summer with Synchronized swimming, basketball practices and games, reading books, playing games, gardening, and so forth. So I decided to compile a bunch of pictures from around the last time I posted to now. And since a picture is worth a thousand words...enough said, right? Enjoy!!!

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