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Month: June 2023
Orlando 2023 Day 4
An awful day for the girls: they lost their first match on the single-elimination final day. They were so out of sorts I put the camera up early in the first set and never got it back out.
Back home, a bit of relaxation with my favorite lady on the back deck.
Orlando 2023 Day 3
The girls did better today: won two, lost one. The one they lost they should have won: it was not a team that dominated them, but they lost in the third set.
Finally, we have some pictures from the Boy: K went for the parents' night at scout camp today. He showed her around where they sleep, their bathhouse, and myriad other things -- all the details that make camp camp.
"E is having a good time," she texted, which assuaged my biggest worry--that he would be reluctant to engage with others and not really make any good friends.
The opposite seems to be happening.
Orlando 2023 Day 2
It was a tough day: the girls went 0-3, and what's worse, they were all straight-set defeats. I know it had to be frustrating: of the three teams they played, only one should have been truly hard to defeat. The other two teams, our girls essentially beat themselves. They would get a lead, then give it right back. Once they gave the lead back, the teams would just trade points until the end, something that, if it had happened when our girls had the lead, would have resulted in wins.
All that to say, only one team blew them out of the water; the other teams just barely beat them in each set -- nearly as close as possible. Of those four sets, they lost three of them 22-25 and the fourth one 23-25. In each of those four sets, they had the lead at some point. In one set they had a five-point lead; in another set, they had an eight-point lead. That had to be frustrating for them.
After a few hours' break and a nap for L, we met up with most of the other team families for a team dinner.
Orlando 2023 Day 1
The girls split their games today. They played one team from Charlotte who has beaten them three times this season. Our girls took the first set, and we up 6-1 in the second set, but the other team really kicked into gear and took the second set. We won't talk about the third set...
Discovery of the day: scooters for rent, which is how we traveled back to the hotel from the tournament. (We're only about a mile away from the convention center, so I dropped the Girl off this morning and then drove back to the hotel and walked.) Second discovery of the day: the scooters weren't as cheap as we'd calculated...
As for the Boy, I got a picture from his troop leader:
Since he's in his Class A uniform, I'm assuming this was actually from yesterday.
"He doesn't look thrilled," K texted.
"None of them do," I replied.
Hopefully, he's doing well.
Two Departures
The Boy left for Scout camp today:
I've been a little curious and worried about how he might take it: he's not actually going with his own troop because his uncle is coming from Poland with his family that week. "There's no way you're going to camp while Wojek D is here!" K exclaimed, so the Boy is going with a different troop. He knows a few people in that troop, but it's not his troop. He chose the troop he did because he wants to be with his friends, the friends who are going to Scout camp a couple of weeks from now.
The Girl and I, on the other hand, headed off to Orlando today for Nationals. How will her team do? I don't know. Is that so important? Yes, and no.
What is important? Our TV greeted us when we first entered the room...
Legos
Where did this come from? The last time I remember doing this with him -- I can't even recall. Two years ago? More? Less?
Play Date
L insists that the boys are too old now to have play dates.
"They just hangout!" she explains with exasperation.
"What about you? Do you have play dates?"
[L rolls her eyes...]
Bounce and Paint
Still in the Basement
