Mid-Year Recap

So I won't bore you with all those "best intentions" crap. Just suffice it to say that I haven't been moved to write until now. Who knows how long this latest interest will last, but hopefully it will be more than just a couple days :)

So what's been going on at Casa LeClair? Swimming, swimming, Mel goes on a girl's trip, swimming, Mel goes on a business trip while Danny goes on a research trip while the boys visit Grandma Agnes, and, of course, MORE SWIMMING!

So, let's start with...SWIMMING! (LOL!)
The boys swim year-round for the USA Swimming club Fleet. They love it! Geary is in the Silver group and practices 5 nights a week for 1 1/2 hours each night. Adam is in the Bronze II group and practices 4 nights a week for 1 hour each night. Of course, they do not practice at the same pool, so Danny and I do the divide and conquer routine, rarely seeing each other until about 8pm (2000 for those military folks). So, I like to say that I have no life, I have swimmers! We are at the end of long course season (swimming in 50 meter pools) and everyone is happy about that. I think my favorite, but most conflicted, moment was back in April at the Texas A&M Open meet. They competed in the same heat in the 50 Meter Breaststroke. Fortunately there were not swimming side-by-side! Danny just stood up and yelled "Go LeClairs!" Geary won the heat and Adam came in a respectable 5th place.
Now that Geary is 11, we don't have to worry about them competing against each other...at least not for 2 more years when they'll be in the same age group again.


After the meet...


Lane 4 and Lane 7...

Mel goes on a girl's weekend trip
In April I drove to New Orleans to meet up with Jaynice and Janet for a girl's weekend away. The last time I was in New Orleans was in 1998 with my niece Jennifer. We had a spectacular time! We ate at some fabulous restaurants: NOLA - Emeril Lagasse's restaurant, GW Fins - a seafood restaurant with a menu changes daily, and Joey K's - featured on Diner, Drive-Ins and Dives. And on Friday, the beginning of the New Orleans French Quarter Festival - which had tons of food from local restaurants and lots of free, live music! And each night we went down to Bourbon street and drank Hurricanes and listened to more live music!


Mmmm...Hurricanes!


Mmmm...Beignets!


Mmmm....LOL!
The girls sitting on the steps of our "hotel" room. Photo taken by our wonderful security guard Max.



Tomorrow I'll conclude this mid-year recap.

Later...