This photo was taken at Kristen's first swim meet on the NH team (she had already done a couple months on swim team in NC) when she was on the White Mt. Rapids, at a meet in Claremont. It was a cloudy, cold day, and she and Sara were huddled up inside some sleeping bags trying to get unchilled after the warm-ups in the cold pool, being whiny and wimpy so put on the cap and googles to try to make them laugh.
I love this photo for two reasons. First, it evokes some of my favorite memories - being in NH, how much fun it was to do swim team with my kids and with my friend Susan's kids, and the fun we had traveling (and I mean traveling - often 40 miles or more - ) together to the meets. I loved being in NH for the summers with my kids. Even though Jonathan didn't do swim team with the girls he had fun with his friends and they would come over and do crazy things like set up croquet or miniature golf courses that went off the roof, and we all had fun hiking, going to the beach, seeing friends and relatives.
I also love it because I think it really illustrates my fun and goofy side, and I like how happy I look, and besides all that it has lots of my favorite color in it!
That's my cap and goggles so that must have been the summer I did swim team in NH too! I remember that meet, it was FREEZING!
ReplyDeleteI thought maybe that was your cap and googles but from CCR, it was your first summer doing that. Pretty sure this was the first summer we did NH team, and there were no McNulty's swimming yet. It was always freezing at the Claremont meet!
ReplyDeleteYes, this is one of your best pictures!
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