Brushing shoulders

Just a quick update. We were in Tucson this morning and into the afternoon at Nike's high school invitational swim meet. Ross was entered in 2 events. Of course, being a freshman, he's not as experienced as a lot of the swimmers, he swam 74th of 129 (and others who registered no time, so they were DQ'd or no-shows) in the 100 yard breast stroke with a time of 1:23.10 - the first place guy came in under a minute. And he also chose to be in the 200 individual medley race. His time was not his best, it was 2:45.32 (best is 2:42) but he ranked 64th (also several DQs - sadly a teammate of his was DQ'd with a time of 2:35.

It was really very fun to be at, but the best part of it, Ross was smitten by Olympic Silver medalist, Lacey Nymeyer who he got her to sign his invitational t-shirt and swim cap, and went back again for her to sign his swim bag! He wanted her to sign his bare chest for good luck in the IM but I told him NO WAY! Stinker! But I did get this photo without the help of my camera who is currently suffering from stupid camera-card syndrome. (it's my cell phone camera that came through with the picture! So sorry about the quality!)

Lacey is just a cute girl with a neat personality - poor thing sat & signed autographs for 4 hours and posed for pictures, and the whole time keeping up friendly conversation with everyone - I'm sure the same "stupid" questions over and over again "did you bring the medal?" (Yah, I asked that, and while I was still standing waiting for her to sign all Ross' paraphernalia, two other people asked it...she answered politely - at this point I was ready to make a sign that said "No, she didn't bring the medal, DUH!" but didn't.)