A nice photo of our friends at their daughter's graduation party this past Saturday. Roger was the boys' first cub scout leader, Adam is the boys' good friend who appears in countless posts and many photos, Pam is a lovely friend to have and very entertaining always, and it is just plain difficult to believe that the beautiful Allison is 18 (we have known her since she was about 8) and this fall will be heading off to Purdue University (hmmmphff...I tried my best to win her over to the Cream and Crimson, but her orchestra professor at Purdue will be the one she has had at Carmel these past years, so I lost whatever voice I might have had).
Just kickin' around this evening doing this, that, and the other, eagerly awaiting the time we can drive to the airport and pick up Matt from his Arizona trip. Midnight. People are actually up and doing things at midnight...it's not all that common with me these days, but I can remember days past when midnight seemed a logical hour to be doing things like that.
His meet in Arizona went really well. He swam these freestyles: 50, 100, 200, 400; these backstrokes: 100 and 200; and the 200 IM. Seven swims, 5 new best times...qualified for finals in all 7 swims (even the 400 Free which I thought he had not on Friday, my mistake), and finished way higher than he ever thought possible...the highest being third one and fourth in another (but had to pull from finals on Sunday as Team Indiana needed to head to the airport). The 100 Back Jr. Nat. cut...still elusive...but all in all, a wonderful meet. He loved the chance to swim with many of the top swimmers in our state as well as other top swimmers at the meet. He brings back a new excitement and drive for his sport...nothing like a lot of like-minded swimmers to spur one another on. He made many new friends with the swimmers and coaches, and he had a really wonderful time in Arizona doing the fun bits the coaches had planned for them while they were there. With opportunities like this, you always bring back a whole lot more than just new best times. We are very thankful he had the opportunity to have this chance to experience it all.
I cooked my Whisk Wednesdays meal tonight for posting on Wednesday...I won't say anything further until Wednesday, but I will say that I am thinking of changing Blue Bernice's name to Blue Bearnaise...it was THAT good.