Last weekend was Sarah's first dance team (pom pons) competition here in the Falls. It was a day long invitational for cheer and poms. Since the Falls was hosting, Sarah had to be there early. We got there a little after 12:00 after finding our Christmas tree. Sarah, we were told, was supposed to perform a little after 1:00. Unfortunately they were running behind. We ended up getting to see about 5 or 6 cheer teams do their stunts etc.
I was wondering what was taking so long. There was about five minutes in between teams performing and then once everyone was done, there was maybe a 20 minute wait while the judges tallied every team's score. Really???!!!! There was so much wasted time in between performances they could have very easily been back on schedule. Then in between cheer and poms there was about another 20-30 minutes while all the cheer teams and parents cleared out.
Sarah came on about an hour behind (maybe a little less, it's hard to remember since it was so mind numbingly long in between performances). They did a pretty good job I thought, but the wait was torture. There were some other really good squads I have to say, but is that how I really would have wanted to spend three and a half hours on a Saturday????
The good thing about this competition is that it was local. Sarah has another one coming up in Watertown where we won't have the luxury of being able to just show up. We'll have to get there and stay there all day. Oh, and the best part was that it cost me $5 ($13 for Me, Kris, and Alison) to watch it. I hope that someone upstairs was watching and plans on letting me have an extra four hours down the line about 30 or so years from now.
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