Soccer Tournament

Last Sunday, Kyra participated in a soccer tournament hosted by a school in Discovery Bay, which meant an hour+ bus ride...but beggars can't be choosers and Kyra wanted more actual "games" in soccer than what has been offered here in the past. So, they are making great efforts to find more "game" opportunities for our girls to play against other teams, so she was excited for the opportunity.

It was a scorching day of heat and humidity, but I know Kyra had fun. Our school had five teams participating, one Under 8s, two Under 10s and two Under 12s. Kyra was very excited that her Under 10s team "won their age bracket." Despite the fact that even I was dripping wet by mid-day and all I was doing was watching and cheering, it was a good day! Smiles, for any reason, makes for a good day! I think her scoring three goals in one of the games may have contributed to that smile also.

First Swim Meet of the Year

The kids had their first "swim meet" of the year. Throughout the year, the team hosts practice meets so that the kids can work on beating their best times. Today was a Super Saturday meet and was Tyson's first swim meet ever. It involved a lot of waiting between races because the meet was for all levels of swim groups, but otherwise the kids had a great day of races. Trey and Kyra both swam 200 Meter Freestyles as well as a 100Meter of their choice and 50 Meter of their choice. Tyson did a 100 Meter Freestyle and 50 Free and 50 Breaststroke. They did awesome of course!

The video is of Tyson's 50 Meter Freestyle. His time on the clock showed 55 seconds, but actually was 53 seconds after the timer did a self-correction. Yeah Tyson!