Long Day At Sherwood

(I will blog about my competition skate separately)

I spent most of the day at the 2010 Sherwood Invitational competition.  I wasn't scheduled to volunteer (announcing) until Sunday morning but the organizers asked me to come Saturday morning for the beginning of the competition to help a new announcer get settled in.  This proved to be a wise request since the first hour or so of the competition was a bunch of double-paneled compulsory events (spins, jumps, compulsory moves).  There was some confusion as skaters had to be directed which half of the ice they were supposed to be skating on, we didn't initially have some of the paperwork we needed (it was available, we just didn't have it).  After the double-paneled events were finished it settled down and I was able to watch some skating.  After watching some of my homegirls skate I had a good 1.5 hour break so I went to shower and change into my costume and then come back to the rink.  Watched more skating, ate some baked goods from the bake sale (yum!), then checked in at registration, had some lunch (lunch for competitors was included in the cost of the comp., a nice touch), watch more skating. 

After my skate I watched more skating until the end of the competition.  There was some really great skating!  It was the last time for Karly's "doll" program (here it is last year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kR-TADCDpo).  What a great program!  Pretty much every Sherwood skater I know skated, it was really awesome to see them out there working hard :-).  All in all it was just terrific to be spending the day with so many wonderful friends.