Afterglow 2006 - Day 6

  Faith was ready to jump into the water with dual floatation devices to save James if he needed to be rescued. The two of them have grown so attached, I know she'd accompany him all of the way into the fiery innards of Mount Doom to destroy the one ring.

The hour was getting late and the kids were getting tired. Not sleepy tired, but tired of swimming. As the sun goes down, the Earth gets colder. It really isn't a whole lot of fun to swim when it is cold outside. If I had to choose, and call me crazy, but I'd take warm weather.

Despite their hideous and blasphemous HIM worshiping temple, Tim and Kevin were awarded second place. I'd hate to see which sand castle was awarded third. Although they were not the best, the still took the stage and accepted their award as if they were the greatest creators of sand art in modern day history. Their mothers should be, and were on that day, very proud of their sons' accomplishments.

Faith loves to go swimming, but she is just learning to swim without floatation devices. James, Janelle and the green noodle were there to assist her, but then she ditched the green noodle so that she could swim on her own. She swam very well on her own, but it is also necessary to point out the orange water wings who came through huge on the floatation assist. They helped her fly higher than an eagle.

Home

It looks like James is in for a real nasty splashdown after jumping from the high dive, but he was able to reconfigure his body angle a spilt second before impact. He's pretty lucky that he is limber enough to do that, seeing as how Afterglow does not have a lifeguard on duty, no do they have a capable medical staff on hand.  

I hope Kevin is doing an impression of one of his scary Finnish singers that he adores. If he is not, then I serious question his intentions and facial expressions as he approached me on the beach. It was scary, kind of like the creature from the black lagoon.