Rick and Mindy can tell you that I am almost always late on gymnastics meet night. I swear, I can leave my house at noon for a 7:00 pm meet and still manage to miss half of the first rotation. So when we showed up almost 20 minutes early on Saturday, it was quite an event.
So much so that during the gymnast introductions, when they turn the lights down and flash the lights to try to induce seizures and the gymnasts come out one by one to great fanfare, my daughter leaned over to me and said "Wow! This is cool! They must have just started doing this!"
No, sweetie, they always do this. We're just never here to see it.













