Oh what a hazy, crazy, lazy days of summer....

Well, my children have been out of school since late May, right before Memorial Day and they will be going back to school in less than 2 weeks. I am so sad. I will miss hearing their laughters while they are laying in their beds in the morning.
We had a wonderful summer this year, not too busy, but busy enough so they won't be bored. I am lucky enough to be a stay-at-home mom. So my children are enjoying the summer going swimming at our neighborhood pool, seeing free movies every week, hanging out with friends, going on vacation and staying up late.
Of course my children does not have the same freedom that I did when I was child. The smell of honeysuckles would mark the beginning of the summer. I can just see it - getting off the school bus and going to the neighborhood convenience store to get candies. Not a 7-11 (seven-eleven) convenience store, but an old store with concrete floor and the wood door that pops right back with you let it go. They sell Sunbeam bread and some basic necessities, but best of all, they sold candies. Not the .89 cents chewing gum that you're paying nowaday, but candies that you can buy with your pennies and nickels.
We would watch Captain Kangaroo while having breakfast and then we would leave the house and roamed the neighborhood all day long. Sometime we would come back from lunch and sometime we would stay out all day long. My favorite thing to do is to play kickball in the street and we would use speed bumps for 1st and 3rd base.
Oh, how I missed those days of summer!

Swimmer....ears

Recently my daughter made the top 100 swimmers for our county. The county event was held at a facility that was the former cite of all swimming, diving, and synchronized swimming competition during the Centennial Olympics Games!!! But only the top 50 swimmers got to swim at the County Meet.
I also found out that our county has the largest number of summer league swimmers IN THE COUNTRY!!! With over 6000+ swimmers! Our team alone consist of 133 swimmers. Sometime we would host a meet with another team that consist of 260+ swimmers. Imagine, all those kids at your pool and parents and sibblings and additional family members. Wow, what would the fire marshall say?

Amazing Race in Vietnam - Again

I just read an article that Amazing Race 10 was in Vietnam! I can't find any other article about it, but I can't WAIT TO SEE IT! The show will not air until the fall of 2006. I missed the Amazing Race when it was in Vietnam in 2002 - because I wasn't watching the show then.
For those who are not familiar with the show or have not seen it. The show starts out with about 10 or 12 teams (in pairs) of players. Destination unknow. At the beginning of the race, the host will tell each player where they are going, example- they could be in the US in Denver Colorado and their 1st destination will be Brazil. The contestants will race off and try to get the earliest flights out of the country, sometime with restricted plane travel or strict budget. Once they arrive in Brazil, they will get a clue and it will tell them to go to this XXX place. Once they get there, they may have to compete in a series of task, some are physical and some are mental, the team will get to choose which one they will do. Team farthest behind will be eliminated as the race progress and the first team to arrive at the final destination wins one million dollars!!!
If anyone out there heard anything about it, drop me a note.