Running...sitting...and waiting...

Saturday morning was the inter-school athletics and Alice had made it into two events (100m and 800m).  We arrived on time at 8am and it was raining lightly.  In fact, it continued to rain all morning - not heavy rain but constant.  On the plus side it kept things quite cool for both the athletes and spectators.  On the down side there wasn't much more to do than sit in the stands.  By the time of Alice's first race, they were already 40 minutes behind schedule.  Alice ran well, coming in 6th in the 100m (9 year old age group, even though she is 8), 7th in the 800m and 6th in the 100m relay.  At 11:40 Felicity had well and truly had enough of sitting around so she and I left.  The events were now 70 minutes behind schedule.

After an hour or so at home, I headed off to my dress rehearsal for the Jitterbugs Swingapore dance recital (which is on this afternoon and evening).  The instructions were to be there at 2:30pm.  At 7:30pm our group of tired, hungry and somewhat disgruntled tap dancers finally got onto to the stage for our run-through!