Sports Day

Saturday 23rd May: It rained, then it poured, then it chucked it down some more. It just didn't stop all day. First thing in the morning I made up packed lunches and the boys got into their respective uniforms for a Cub and Kea sports day out. They had hired a local school bus and its usual bus driver, who also happens to be the District Commissioner! There were 30 of us, leaders, children plus Steve and I, and our trip was to Timaru. The kids spent the morning on the polytechnic's Climbing Wall. Jonathan's arms and legs just weren't long enough to do much, but he found a novel way of getting higher, as the picture shows. We all had our packed lunches and then took the bus to the swimming pool for the district's swimming sports competition. The Keas went first with 4 races for each age group. Peter and Jonathan were in the under 7s and both did very well. There was a freestyle race, egg and spoon (as Peter's picture shows), kickboard (a swim float) and tube race (inside a car inner tube). The Waimate Keas came second overall. Then the Cubs had their races, in under 9s, under 10s and over 10s. They also had freestyle, kickboard and tube race, plus novelty race (wearing oversized life jackets), backstroke and relay. Edward tried hard, and the picture shows him in the life jacket.
We came home in the bus and got in at 5pm. Home for a quick tea and then three little exhausted chaps were ready for bed.