Nationals

Soon my synchro team will be leaving for Nationals. Nationals is a synchronized swim meet with teams from all over the US. 8 girls, 2 chaperones, and 2 coaches all piling up on an airplane and heading across the country. I am way excited for the plane ride. No feeling has quite sunk in yet about the competition. My team will be competing against 30 other teams. Wow! When we walk through the airport you will for sure be able to tell that we are a team. We will all be wearing our Aqua Star pants, Aqua Star jackets and a plain white shirt underneath. We will all have our hair up and tied with ribbon. And we will all be wearing closed toed shoes. I'm wearing my new poka-dotted converse! When we get there we will have dinner then go straight to bed. The next day we will get to have a practice swim through of team. The day after we will be swimming our routine for the judges. If our team places in the top 8, we will get to go on to figures the next day and Finals the day after. There are so many people there, you have to wait an hour between figures. I cannot really explain what a figure is. I guess it is like ballet's first position in the water. Yeah, good job Maddy that's a good way to describe it. Then on the day after we will be at Finals. Finals is when the top 8 teams compete against each other and that's how you can move your score up or down a place. Then there is awards! They have little boxes for 1st, 2nd and 3rd places. There is flowers and pictures and everything. After awards even though it is like 9:00 at night we go out for the Championship dinner. Cool, right?