Raving Amicks

The Mom unit and I spent a long weekend in Brewster, Washington. Mason’s swim team had their championship meet in Omak, Washington where it was over 100 degrees in the afternoon. The people Mason is staying with let us stay in their lake house. Here’s a shot of Alta Lake from the house and a shot of the house. On Sunday, we went “4 wheeling” up in the wilderness. Mason drove most of the time – scared the bejesus out of us!

Mason, let’s celebrate all you accomplished in your swimming career – top 16 age of 14, Washington State H.S. title as a Freshman, Zone record, NCAA “B” cut and lots of swimming friends that love you.  Countless kids who you have inspired.  Lots of hard work that most of us can’t fathom.  You have a gift with those kids. Congrats!  Can’t wait to see what you will succeed at next! 

Hey everybody, I took a check back in to that other country we’re related to, it was raining like hell the whole time, but whatever, we’re swimmers. We went to downtown vancouver for 4 hours on friday, but it was pouring rain, so we we froze all of our asses off while walking around loooking at ridiculously expensive clothing stores. But we swam great! I got a few pictures here of our team sittin around, and the canadian’s big ass pool.Anyway, the meet was really cool because we swam in a short course meters pool rather than a yards pool and nobody knew what good times were, so no one really gave a shit about the times. So in other words, it was a really relaxed meet that was just meant to race our opponents rather than worry about times. Oh here’s my bedroom… which is where I shared a bedroom with Yonitin and Henry. And here is us sittin around between races. Unfortunately, the canadians are freaking fast as hell, so we didn’t win against UBC and Calgary. But it was still a really fun trip, and Vancouver is really cool still.

Hey everybody, I don’t know about you but I haven’t had Lucky Charms in a loooong time, so im enjoying them RIGHT NOW! Yes they are good. Anywho I got a job! thanks to Stephanie, I am a swim instructor at Safe n Sound Swimming. So that is pretty cool. Coming home this weekend too, so double cool.

Bounjour man famille! I finished Angels & Demons (a book, the previous installment prior to the Da Vinci Code) by Dan Brown and am currently on the Da Vinci Code now, so far it is very nice.
So with the remaining $$$ that I got for my barrier-shattering swim I am looking at some really neat paintings on ebay that are very nice and would look extra nice on my barren walls. I don’t know if I can put these photos on the website, so sadly I will just have to put links up. boob.

Voila! here are the links to coool painting 1 and cool painting 2

Turns out the last 100 Fly time taken was 48.59, just .04 seconds faster than our friend Mason at 48.63. Good luck at Nationals this year and next year at the NCAA Championships. Hey, how come Brett wasn’t invited? As far as I can tell it’s only Bruno for UW.