Still Waiting....

Today my dad went on one of his ritual morning time walks. But this time Reg's boat was finally gone. He was out taking across his first position swimmer. That meant good news for us. We had a very good chance of going out tomorrow. So in preparation for our possible swim we stayed in all day. Of course we did our morning swim and it was a very beautiful day for a crossing. (Lucky other person!) We watched the Olympic Opening ceremony which lasted like five hours. There were 204 different countries represented at the games and over 10,000 athletes. Since we're in the UK the announcers were all speaking from British perspective which was different for us. I didn't care for the announcer much because she kept bringing up negative things about China and their relations with other countries and about the controversies surrounding the games. The Olympics should be about uniting and forgetting about the politics that are invovled. The games are really inspiring and exciting to watch. I'm glad that I'll have something to watch whilst recovering from my swim. It's also really neat because open water swimming is making a debut at this Olympics. I'll definitely be watching that! Hopefully they'll allow more competitors in the following years because I definitely would love to participate in that! Unfortunately we called Reg at eight and we will not be going out tomorrow! :( The wind picked up...So we are still anxiously waiting for our swim to commence.