Saturday.

Today was a swim meet day. What this means is DD1 and I got up early and at 6:45 drove down to the neighborhood pool. We parked, and then toted DD1's lawn chair, bag of toys, towel, and cooler of snacks to the area for the 7 and 8 YO girls.
The meet started at 8:30, and I was a timer. There are three timers for each lane of the pool. At the beginning, the head timer guy said that if any team of three timers got the exact same time, he would give them a hot dog. And our team? Got the exact same time SIX TIMES. This is down to the hundredth of a second, so, for example, on one heat, each of us got 35.31 on our stopwatches timing one particular swimmer. Thirty-five seconds, three-tenths and one-one-hundredth of a second. This hardly ever happens once in a meet, much less SIX TIMES. So, DD1 was very happy, as the "hot dog" translated to 3 food tickets. So, she had nachos, a hot dog, and some candy.

The meet got called after the 58th event because of thunder. Not rain, mind you. No, no. It had been raining for quite some time. But hardy swimmers and parents aren't going to let a little rain get in the way. My shift as a timer was over after the 40th event, so I just huddled on the covered bleachers and watched the intrepid swimmers swim, waiting for the 60th event -- DD1's last event -- to be over so I could go home. Alas, she didn't get to swim in the 60th event, which she was none too happy about, as she came in first in her first heat and was looking forward to repeating that record. We waited around for 30 minutes before they called it, and so we came home, took a warm shower and put some sweats on.