incremental progress: Gymnastics

November 28, 2006

Gymnastics

the weekend was dominated by gymnastics. On Friday night we had an old and good friend call in on his way to Waiouru. We stayed up till late at night talking and drinking, and a pleasant time was had by all. The next morning we had to get up and get C to his gymnastics rehearsal in the morning and get the rest of us to the main road so we could watch the Christmas parade, which the gym club was part of.

the parade was surprisingly good - I was expecting a lot less floats, and there were three or four bands, so it was much bigger than we thought a wee hokey town like Wanganui would come up with. The wierdest prize goes to the Falun gong (sp!) float which had about five people on it, dressed in bright yellow and decorated with tinsel, who meditated on the back of a ute down the main road. Seriously wierd. And the best float was the Pacific Island one, they sang and danced and had decorated their huge truck beautifully. Gym was just a really REALLY big group.

Then R jumped in the car with A (the friend) and went to Waiouru with him to buy a car... It is very tidy but I still think rather over priced. But R likes the fact it has come from a family friend.

The next day we would have wagged church, but I was playing keyboards, and wagging would not have been good. So we went, then rushed off to get groceries and then straight off to the end of year gym display. That was brilliant. So well organised, and what some of the kids can do is very impressive. It is odd though looking at their really quite normal accomplishments, and remembering that the olympic gymnasts are actually about the same age, and doing a hell of a lot more. I suspect our kids have happier childhoods, or at least I kind of hope so.