Special Olympics

Way, way back, before vacations of all sorts, I had three kids in the Special Olympics. My kids are incredibly fortunate to have wonderful friends in the special education program at ISB. They really love these kids. Matthew, in fact, loves his friend Max so much that he was willing to set aside his sworn hatred of any movement brisker than a plod and actually run. I will interject here that Max hates to run too, so they made a pretty good team. Benjamin doesn't really love running, but he is darn good at it, and it is a good thing too because so is Creig.
Benjamin partnered Creig in the 1600 meter and they tore it up, coming in second place behind their team mates and friends.

The medals ceremony is a hoot, with lots of loud music, innovative outfits, and a rousing hip, hip, hip, hip, horray! in a rousing dutch accent.

Matthew and Max lined up on a grey, wet, Belgian Saturday morning...

with their team mates Anna and Mathilde...

And made great time on their race. So great in fact, that they each ran a personal best and surpassed their practice times by more than 3 minutes!

More hip, Hip, HIp, HIP, HORRAY! Way to go ISB!

Life doesn't get much better than this-