Busy Weekend

Bode had a very busy weekend. He had swim practice Friday morning from 0500 - 700; what a great way to start the day. He then had school, after which he got home around 2:15. Choctaw was playing an away football game, so the band had to be ready to travel at 4:00, so we had to feed him a quick meal and send him on his way. The band played well (according to Bode; Ashley and I opted to skip this game), and Bode got back home shortly before midnight. Nothing like a 20-hour day to start the weekend.

Bode had to be back up at the school at 11:00 on Saturday morning. The band had their Music Performance Assessment (MPA). MPAs are a very big deal, and the band had to take the hour-long bus ride over to Tate High School where all the local schools were gathering for their evaluations. Choctaw did great--they earned all Superiors, which is the best they could do. The below movies are snippets of their performance; I have no idea where Bode is in these videos :-)

Bode got back Saturday night around 9:30. He promptly ate a big snack and went to bed. We were up at 5:30 this morning for a swim meet out in Destin. Bode swam the 100-back, 100-butterfly, 200-IM, and 100-freestyle. He was within one second of his best times for the first three events--he figured he would be a little slow today, but then he amazed us and took one second off his 100-free time finishing in 55.5 seconds. Below are his butterfly and freestyle races.

Bode is off from school tomorrow due to the holiday, but he does have swim practice at 0500. He plans to go to practice and then sleep the rest of the day. Ashley and I will work, as someone has to earn money to feed this kid :-)  Pleasant week to all.