Long Jump, First Place!

On Saturday we attended the District Elementary Track Meet where Melissa jumped her way to first place in the girls 3rd grade division. Wheeeeeee! In years past it has been a very long, drawn out, all day event. This year they had things running so well that things were early! EEEkkkk! The long jump event for her grade was supposed to be sometime around 9:30am. We arrived early and it was a good thing we did. As we got out of the car Emily heard the words "Final call for girls 3rd grade long jump!" We ran over to the pit, got her checked in and she ran and got in line with a bunch of other girls. Within 20 minutes she had completed all her jumps and we waited for the final results. We had no clue as to how far she had jumped or where she stood in the standings. We still don't know how far she jumped. Anyway, a man soon came up to the group of anxiously awaiting girls and called out the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners. We we're shocked and happy. Her next event wasn't until 4:30pm so we decided to go home and come back later. We went back to the meet about 3:15 because we had heard that they were running early and we had about 10 minutes before she ran the 200m. She place 2nd in her heat and about 8th overall time wise. She was happy to have received a medal considering all the kids who go and come home with nothing.