...That's what our weekend was full of.
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| Handsome little devil. |
Rob and I took the kids on a weekend trip to Philidelphia two weeks ago where I attended the Eastern States Swim Clinic. It was a conference to help me better develop as a swim coach. And it was awesome! I was able to hear from Ian Crocker, Brendan Hansen and Kate Ziegler, all Olympic gold medal winning and world record holding swimmers. More importantly I was able to listen to lectures from some incredible coaches including Chuck Batchelor, Todd Schmitz, Mike Bottom and David Marsh. These guys are 'swimming' in olympians, nationally ranked age group swimmers, NCAA champions and championships. I was getting super geeked out about everything swimming! We talked about training volume, tapering, motivation, hip vs. shoulder vs. body driven freestyle, dryland training...the list goes on. It was just plain cool.
Rob and the boys had some fun too. He toured Philly with a stroller and I put on the business casual for a change (Ok not really. Let's be honest. We're swim coaches so we all showed up in flip flops and team gear.). They went to a Harry Potter Festival in Franklin Park, toured some boats and a maritime museum, ate a cheese steak of course, and we all saw Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell. Overall I think it was a highly eventful and successful weekend capped off with a birthday celebration for our awesome cousin Tommy Orsack! What could be better? Swimming and sight seeing, followed by a party. Love it.
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Driving us crazy crawling around
Independence Hall |
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| Crazy hair, and face, and person :) |
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| Getting lost going to the hotel |
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Watched this guy set one of his WR's
at Olympic Trials 2004 |
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| Preferred method of travel for Cashew |
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Ben Franklin's grave
{I took the picture and can't even read that} |
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