Day 1

WOW!! What a great day...Colin did so good. He placed 1st in his heat on 3 of the races he did today and 3rd on one...in case you don't know how this works I will TRY to explain. There are ususally about 4 groups that swim in the same race and there are only 1o lanes in the pool they have to break them down...heat 1 is ususally "no time" racers (kids who have never raced before). Then heat two is racers with times but are not the fastest racers and all the way to heat 4 with the fastest swimmers. From all of these groups of about 32-35 or so swimmers they take the fastest times...the top 8 in each race gets a medal...(this is really a big deal). Colin will get at least one medal tomorrow for the 50 meter breaststroke...since he placed 7th overall. On the other 3 he swam in he placed anywhere from 12-14..I think! I will be finalized tomorrow. I will list in the next few days all of the events he swam in and his times...and of course there will be more pictures to come after tomorrows race!!! We hope he does as well tomorrow...he is sort of getting the "big head" now that he knows he is getting a medal...we are trying really hard to tone him down! :)