When the moon hits your eye....more like your face, that's not amore!!!

Day Two of Nationals...

On the way to the pool, this morning Dani was a little concerned about Sue's driving as she screamed in horror for fear that she was going to lose her life, "Red light, Sue!" Sue, cool as a cucumber responds, "Dani, it's okay. I have a whole block to stop. I was just accelerating to get over the small hill made by the railroad tracks." After that, Sue no longer allows us to watch her park the van.

Then the laughs just continued in the locker room when we were all changing into our suits. Sarah, Carolyn, and Amanda were just chatting away when this old lady walks into our aisle dripping wet from the shower she had just taken, with a towel barely covering anything at all. She just so happened to have the locker directly in front of where Amanda was changing. At this point, Amanda was bending down to pull up the legs on her fastskin, meanwhile the elderly woman shimmied her way to her locker. Amanda still bent over at this time, the old lady finally reaches her locker. She removed the towel that was not covering much of anything, if you catch my drift, and bends over herself. It was not until Amanda, went to look up to talk to Carolyn when she saw a wrinkled version of the full moon. So basically, if you haven't followed along at all, an old lady put her naked, old, wrinkly butt in Amanda's face. Amanda turned to look at Carolyn and mouthed Oh jeez! and Carolyn started laughing right away causing the old lady to turn and look, so Carolyn had to just turn away and act like nothing had happened.

On to more serious business...
The Lady Reds started the meet off with the 200 Medley Relay of Sarah, Michelle, Carolyn, and Amanda. The officials were using the new touch pad system for deciding false starts for each relay, which if your reaction time off the block was faster that .09, you were automatically disqualified. This meant eight teams were disqualified including the top seeds. Our relay was one of the very few that did not get DQ'd and we were very excited to swim the race again at night. However, after much deliberation, the officials decided to call all the relays back and not DQ anyone because of touch pad malfunction, which put us in second to last place. Sadly, we did not get to swim that event again. Michelle swam her second fastest time in the 400 IM and gave it her all. The previous meet record for this event was broken four times today. Amanda swam the 200 free in a 1:54.35 which tied her for 14th, however, Dani thought she tied for 16th and was freaking out thinking Amanda was going to have to do a swim off for the consolation heat. But Amanda proved her wrong and was at a safe 14th.

Four of us got Quizno's for lunch and Sarah decided to be gross and get KFC instead and eat like a depressed, obese woman who eats her feelings away. She also called us ALL from the van to tell us Big Bertha had moved. And Alyssa expanded her horizons and ate a sandwich that had more than just bread and turkey on it and ate the whole thing.

We came back to the hotel and rested and hung out before heading back to finals.

On to finals. Amanda swam her 200 freestyle in her fastest time ever with a 1:54.10. Dani was freaking out the entire race because she took out the first 100 two seconds slower than this morning but managed to go an even faster time. She moved up two spots to 12th place!!! This meet is so fast that every record, except for the 100 breaststroke, has been broken so far not including relays.

So after the meet we hung out in the parking garage while we waited for Sue to FIND the van. Alyssa had the giggles and was laughing at absolutely everything and had to pee really bad. So Carolyn tried to make her laugh even harder while Amanda jabbed her in the bladder with her fist hoping she would leak a little......... Mission Accomplished! (*)

We got back to the hotel and ate dinner from the same place as the night before only this time, they were slightly faster. Then, Carolyn and Amanda had this great idea! We asked the front desk for the key to Fort Lagoon, which was the exercise room on a balcony overlooking the pool. We hid up there until Dani and Carlos finally came looking for us. Amanda thought it would be a good idea to go diving from the balcony into the pool, but right after she thought of doing this, she saw that there was a no diving sign attached to the balcony. Carlos told us we should do a cannonball instead giving us some good ideas for tomorrow night ;)

Signing off,
The National Team

P.S. Thank you Stephen for being our #1 fan

P.S.S. Thank you Stephen for being our ONLY fan

P.S.S.S. We hope this one is a little bit funnier

P.S.S.S.S. There is a 500-lb man that lives in the room above us and runs around at all hours of the day and night, we think it's so he can lose some of his extra baggage

P.S.S.S.S.S. Michelle has a handicapped room with get this.... two peepholes, one for when you are standing and one for when you are in the wheelchair

P.S.S.S.S.S.S. (*)Alyssa is begging me to tell you that she made it to the bathroom... we'll leave it up to you whether you believe it or not.