Day 1 of Racing continued

Roberto, Paul and the kids arrived back at 8.30pm totally exhausted and ready for pasta with meat sauce (or cheese for some of the little boys), garlic bread and strawberries and ice-cream. Boys were asleep by 9.30pm and girls 10.30pm. As the first race is not due to start until 2pm tomorrow Roberto has decided to do the de-briefing in the hotel at 9am then get to the venue for noon. The wind does not arrive until 2pm and Roberto has been discussing "thermals" at great length.
Apologies for missing Jillian off the results she is lying 55 and Benj seems to have been adopted by Amy and Mark as he is listed as Benj Turner (lucky them...................) The registration lady did look somewhat over whelmed when I did 9 of them together.
As Roberto hasn't done the de-briefing it is hard to gauge how he feels they are doing and they were so hungry and tried nobody really mentioned the races much. Then they were asleep.
Looks like more of the same tomorrow!
I will try and get some photos to you - today was spent sorting them all out to get "racing ready" buying stuff that was missing etc.
Cameron bought himself a nice new red like jacket!! and they all got a regatta t-shirt.

Day 1 of Racing

Quick up date as completely manic day. V V V hot, kids launched at 1pm and first race at 2.15pm was abandoned due to 180 degree wind shift i think. Kids are still at venue it is 8.10pm!! They have just come off the water. Dinner is waiting for them......................and results are after 3 races:-
11 Ceci
17 Mikey
28 Sebby
35 Jessica
43 Georgia
51 Benj
62 Cameron
73 Declan

89 boats I think

They will be exhausted so will be quiet night tonight

TGIF

So a busy day today. The kids and Roberto decided they would enter the first part of Texas race week which is 3 days of racing at Texas Corinthian Yacht Club so Paul and I went off to find TCYC. This is about 15 mins away and is equally lovely. A thunder storm appeared early afternoon which had lightening and tornados so Roberto made everyone come in early, derig and load the trailer to move to TCYC. As the kids were in early we all went  bowling across the road from the hotel and had "all you can eat pizza". The kids had a great time and Sebby gets the most improved award. The kids got home at 8pm and went straight in to a de-briefing with Roberto ready for the first LOOT 2011 regatta!!

End of day 2

Kids launched at 10am today and again it was v hot with wind building.
From what I can gather they did team-racing games as preparation for the US Team Racing event. They all came back very very happy. When asked what was the best part of the day comments were:-
Sailing down wind surfing the waves.
Capsizing
Lunch (think they played  games out on the water)
THE DOLPHINS

Dinner was successful but to be honest it is a challenge feeding 12 with 2 tiny ovens and not many utensils but we had BBQ Chicken, Mac and Cheese and corn with brownies for dessert.

Tomorrow other teams arrive and the fun begins

I found this piece of art work that the girls did...........

2 Worlds in the morning

Photos taken at the same time. Girls still fast asleep, boys eating breakfast having been awake for a while watching TV and having pillow flights..........................

End of Day 1

Kids enjoyed swimming at the HYC pool with water mellon and cookies - dinner was lasagne, salad and garlic bread. Roberto is still doing his debriefing while they enjoy an ice cream. LOOT now owns an ice cream scoop. They look tired!!!

Day 1 - and it is a hot one

All slept well, the boys were first asleep (due to hard play) and the girls being older seemed to be doing each others hair and stayed up longer !!??
Breakfast is adequate with no complaints (yet). There is milk and juice, yoghurt, cereal, muffins, fruit and danish pastries. They all made their own lunches and went off with Roberto to the Houston Yacht Club. Paul and I delivered more water, gatorade and ice mid morning.
The club is v big and has incredible facilites. Large pool, showers, playground and grass area. It is probably the nicest club I have ever visited!

The plan is after sailing to swim and shower at the club as it is somewhat cramped at the hotel with water mellon and cookies. Them back for dinner and de-briefing.