CHEER POWER NATIONALS

so this past weekend was the cheer power wild west nationals in Houston. went down there with amy deanna and desi. met up with peggy. had a pretty good time overall.

the hotel we stayed in was nice but good grief they had a policy that made me insane. you HAD to give them your car keys. there was not anywhere that you could self park. of course i did not like this plan and they agreed to let me park my truck and then give them the keys saying that they would not move it unless it was an emergency. at some point there must have been some emergency that i missed. on sunday we got ready, packed up our stuff, checked out and asked for the car. then we waited.... and waited.... and after a while we waited some more. after about 20 minutes (that seemed like 4 hours since we had to be at reliant arena for the girls meet time) the head valet idiot comes up to me and says "do you have a code on your car?" and to that I reply "yes" and he says "well then i need you to go to your car" this whole time i am thinking okay why in the heck did you have to move it and how did you get into it to move it without the code but you can not get into it without the code to bring it back?!?!?!? ugh! frustrating! So they moved my car from the parking lot on the ground outside of the hotel to the 6th story of a parking garage. This would not annoy me nearly as much if the dang garage had not been EMPTY!!!!! wth. why did it have to be moved and then moved up to the 6th floor? So i walk up there get my car and drive to pick up deanna peggy and the girls. OH MY was I MAD!!!!!!!

(i did not tip them)

anyway after the first day of prelims we have a noonish meet time and a couple of amys friends from school that were in town met us at the competition to watch her compete.... LIGHTNING does amazing!!! then we went and got something to eat, walk around the galleria and find out that lightning is in first. =) YAY!

The next day we go to finals (after the car fiasco) and they compete again and hit everything except one stunt that did not go up. The girls are not too worried about it because they were so far ahead in prelims and the other teams were dropping stuff as well.

finally it is time for awards.

CHAMPION CHEER LIGHTNING .... 1st place.... &..... HIGH POINT!!!! =) =) =)

Peggy decided to ride home with us because the lady she rode up with wanted to leave after her daughter competed!! :) We all finish up competition business and then load into the car for the trip home. HOOOORRRAAAAYYYYY!!!! Wait everyone is hungry. ok lets get something to eat... drive through... head home. OH WAIT! not everyone can agree on one place.... ha ha. So we go through two drive throughs, feed the starving monkeys and finally head north!

this is about 9:30 at night. We had a nice ride home visiting but were so thankful to fall into bed when we finally rolled in around 2:30 in the morning :)

Woke up this morning, got ready for work/school and started all over again!

Next competition = next weekend! =) ACA Nationals in Ft. Worth!!!!