Boooo!!!!

Hope I didn't scare you! :-P
I went to Birmingham today for the much awaited gymnastics competition! I managed to find a driver in the end. He was really sweet, and drove s all the way there and back. I thought that he would wander off into Birmingham for the day but, no he stayed and watched the competition! The advanced men and ladies categories were very impressive mind.

So anyway, I did everything I was meant to do as the organiser of the trip, I remembered the leotards, the scrunchies, the directions and even the bum glue! (don't ask! Its used to stick leotards down so that you don't get a wedgie half way through a routine, a very annoying occurrence I must add)

We were in the cool new Mercedes 9 seater thing, which although it is a car is absolutely massive and is nearly the size of a minibus! It is very nice and comfy though :-) , good for a 2h30 trip each way! Our driver got us there in one piece, well done him! And got us back to obviously.

Once there, we spent the first couple of hours watching the advanced competitors competing. As I said earlier they were all very good, although I think that some of my team should have been in advanced rather than novice... umm ohh well... next year we will know!
Then it was our go. After a general warm up and a specific warm up we each took to the floor, strutting our stuff in time to the music! Hehe. I was good fun, and I managed to remember my routine! Go me! We moved onto vault next, and competed two vaults each. It was on vaulting table, which is always scary especially as I haven't used one in years. But it was all fine.

So yeah that was it. We came 2nd overall as a team, which I think is rather good, and Nicola came first in our category. (She is the one I think should have been in the one above! Ooops!) So we all have shiny medals now. Yey, I like competitions, not so much the competing part but more the team spirit before and after the comp. Its funny because neither gymnastics or trampolining is considered a team sport, but that is by far the best bit of the day, the mucking around as a group.

Ooh and we all looked really flashy and cool in our brand new, collected today, white gymnastic club hoodies!

PS. I seem to have used an incredible number of exclamation marks in my post. But then I suppose that isn't unusual, I always seem to :-)