Who needs Florida?

We are having some awesome weather here in the state of Iowa. It was in the uppper 50's yesterday and will hit 75 today! We are having Florida weather without the attitude and violence (ha ha). The only problem we are having right now is the water levels are high and we are having a bit of flooding and a bunch of water in the fields from all the snow melt.

Jessi did well at the track meet last night. In the Sprint Medley relay, which is a 100, 100, 200, 400, they did pretty well. Jessica was the 400 leg and pasted two girls to pull off first place in her heat. There were 11 heats however, and they ended up 31st out of 74. It was a huge meet and a bunch of big schools - Des Moines East, and Hoover and other big 4A teams. 74 teams from all over the state. I think there were over 700 girls participating. They ran a time of 2:03 and the winning time was 1:54. They are all young runner so they will have a chance to do much better in the future. That team consists of 3 freshmen and a sophomore.

She also ran the 4x400. It was ugly! We came in 4th in our heat and we were not in the fastest heat. By the time Jessica got the batan she was in a distant 4th place. She closed the gap and but couldn't make up the distance on the 3rd place runner. They don't have a good group of 400 runners and I don't see that getting any better this year. Jess may be better in just the open 400. They didn't have that event at this meet.

Drew and I rode up to Ames for the meet and he spent most of the night playing on the high jump mats with a bunch of little boys. When it was time to leave he was all sweaty and happy as a clam. We left after Jessica ran her last event she was heat 3 out of 9 and didn't get home until 11:00 pm. I rarely see that time of night especially on a weekday.

I forgot to take the camera so I have no pictures to post of the track meet. I will try to do better in getting pictures on the site.

Miss you all.