The Friedman Clan: First On The Road Gymnastics Meet

Monday, February 3, 2020

First On The Road Gymnastics Meet

Maddie had been looking forward to this since last fall when the schedule was released. Her first out of town team event! Her gymnastics team was headed to Indianapolis to compete in the Circle of Stars meet. She did not compete until Sunday morning at 8:00am, so we did not need to leave until Saturday. Our original plan was to leave mid/late morning Saturday, get unloaded, have dinner with the team and get up and compete. Well, he coach gave them strict instructions that they could only swim until 2:00 Saturday and then they needed to be out of the pool. Well, this meant we needed to get up early and leave by 7:00am so she had time to swim, as there is also an hour time difference.
Grandma Farm came the night before and stayed the night and Grandma Jeanne was there at 7:00 and we hit the road.
We got there with no problems. Our room wasn't ready yet when we got there, but they went ahead and let Maddie use the pool while we waited. A few teammates were also in there swimming, so they had fun!!! Once the clock struck 2, it was time to get out. We headed up to our room, Maddie took a bath and then we went down and had lunch in the restaurant in the hotel.
We ordered pizzas with the team for dinner in the hotel and then we had the girls in bed by 8:00, for our 6:20am wake up call.
The next morning we got up and headed over to the convention center for the competition.
Everything went pretty smooth, the meet in itself ran pretty slow, but otherwise, all was good.
Maddie did well and had her best meet yet. Her first meet she scored a 36.2 and got 6th all around. Her second meet she scored 36.225 and got 4th all around, and at this meet she scored 36.775 and got second all around. So she gets a SMIDGE better, but those SMIDGES sure do count when you're talking about gymnastics!!!!
She took 1st on bars, 2nd on floor, 5th on beam, and 7th on vault.
SLGC took second as a team as well. She was a happy girl!!!
We took some pics, went back to the hotel, got our bags, checked out, and hit the road. We found a McAllister's to eat lunch at on the way home and we were back in the Lou by 4:00!!! When we got out of the car, we were hit with some very pleasant 70 degree weather!!!!!

Pizza party time, and time for the moms to improvise with our cooler-making skills. We did just fine!

We stayed at the Crown Plaza by the convention center and it was kind of like their Union Station. This "train" in the middle of the hotel actually had hotel rooms inside of it. Kind of cool!