Sunday, August 10, 2008

Did someone say Olympics?

This is my mom and my aunt. They are in their 49s and 50s. No one told them to do this, I was just trying to show them a few good ab exercises. Next thing I knew, they were synchronized-swimming and saying things like, "Look, a torpedo!" and shooting noodles out from underneath them. Leave it to them to turn my Bella-Ka-Brookia coaching into horseplay. I was trying to make a life for us. This is why I no longer coach girls. My brothers used to work hard when I pretended to coach them in Russian at the hotel pool.

Olympic baseball

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Olympic volleyball

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Olympic weightlifting

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Olympic, um, birdwatching?

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Olympic syncrhonized swimming

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4 comments:

Anonymous said...

my scores--

baseball: 6.5

volleyball: 7.5

weightlifting: 9

birdwatching: 10! (they've obviously been practicing this a while)

synchronized swimming: 8.5 (your mom's form is a little off in the second to last picture, but sharon's perfect form in the last picture gets them by with the half point in the end.)

overall, pretty impressive. good coaching from the russian, bella-ka-brookia.

pamper said...

I'm glad I'm part of this CRAZY family!!!! Was the competition held at Uncle Sam's?

Anonymous said...

Too funny!

Nice pointed toes... if I did that I'd have terrible charlie horses. I'm impressed.

Looks like you're all having a great time. Give each other a big hug from ME!!!

Brooke said...

Tonight we had olympic text messaging speed trials between the blackberry, the iphone and the samsung sync. grampy got into an ecumenical dispute with the ref over the past tense of the word "text" and how it's pronounced. The ref told him to step into the 21st century.