I SWAM A MILE!!!...Patti

Ok, I don't have a picture of me doing it, but I did! I swam 2-500 yard sets on Wednesday. I told my coach, Nicole, that I wanted to swim the swim-a-thon next March with the kids. That's 5000 yards. I didn't think I could do it, but maybe I could swim the whole two hours without stopping. I told Brent I'd pay him $10 if he did the 5000 yards (2.8 miles) 30 minutes faster than me.


So, Nicole said, "Let's see you do THREE 500 yard sets tonight." I did them and then realized I was only 5 laps from swimming a mile, so I did the five and now I can say I DID IT! I'm really happy for several reasons...I swam a mile in college, but only passed the class because the teacher said, "Oh, give it to her" disgustedly (I took 5 minutes over the time limit). I was also happy because I did 750 yards farther than Wednesday in the same amount of time. Also, I did half of my mile in crawl stroke (Wed. I only swam backstroke). Crawl is my worst stroke right now....well, actually, I only have two strokes and neither are really great. Finally, the MOST EXCITING thing was that I did a 50 yard (down and back) lap without stopping...I've never done that. When I did my crawl stroke laps for my 3-500's, I swam a length, stopped and panted for a while, then swam a length, then stopped and panted.

I was so happy when I got done, that I got out of the pool and hugged Nicole. She asked me how I felt and I just started to cry. I DID IT!!!!! :-)

Camping on Orcas Island

A trip to Orcas Island with the "Chinese families" apparently always involves fishing. "Uncle" Steve took the kids fishing and out on the lake. Fish were even actually caught!!