Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Fast and Fun Fabulous 50's Meet

Our swim club decided to create a little series of swim meets to hold on the days of high school meets since meet stuff is already set up and club practice is cancelled.  Shawn is calling them "fast and fun meets" and the first one was a huge success.
They each have a theme and include a little swag to go along with the theme. 
(Megan is not crying here because of the meet, but because we had to miss Robbie getting his eagle.  We were all a little upset.  Maybe certain of us mostly wanted some of the brownies...)
But please notice her fantastic 50's outfit to go along with our Fabulous 50's theme.
All the kids got sunglasses and there was 50's music playing through the whole meet.  The distances were all 50's, so the meet went really fast.  That, of course, was the general idea. (One of the biggest drawbacks to swimming is the long meets.)
There were some fun events thrown in as well, such as this t-shirt relay.  Having to swim in a big wet t-shirt, peel it off, hand it to the next swimmer to put on, etc, tends to slow things down a bit, but the kids had so much fun.


Our meet officials and volunteers were awesome too - even dressing up.  At the break, there was a dance off between the timers and the officials.  Good stuff.


I think everyone is looking forward to the next one just to see what it will be...

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