Thursday Thirteen Olympic Style

Well also like my mother I decided to do the Thursday Thirteen funness (that is now a word, k thanks!). Basically, you pick any topic you wish and create a list of thirteen things that pertain to it. You could do your favorite thirteen movies, or thirteen things about being a sister, just about anything! I thought that it would be a fun way to get the wheels spinning in my head. So here is my list of 13 for Thursday, August 21, 2008!


With the Olympics coming to an end this weekend I chose to do make a list of my favorite parts of the games thus far. I present to you My favorite thirteen moments of watching the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics...In order from least to best!!

13. Finally knowing why they shower after diving, so their muscles don't cramp...except I don't know why they don't do that for swimming, water polo or any of the other events.
12. The guys making such funny faces lifting weights!!
11. Watching the track events in slow motion, "Step Jiggle Jiggle!"
10. All the events in the Water Cube make me want to go swimming in that pool, especially when they show those underwater shots!
9. Usain Bolt waving to the crown halfway through his race and still winning gold and the world record.
8. The new trampoline event, it's actually pretty great!
7. Some intense mind-boggling routines in sync. swimming
6. Dara Torres swimming at the age of 41 and placing Silver, yay for her!
5. Rythmic Gymnastics...as close to dancing as you get in the Olympics!
4. Just the Olympics in general, they're so inspiring and competitive, I love rooting for team USA!
3. Watching them with my sister and doing our own commentary..."Darn you rings!"
2. Nastia Liukin winning gold in all around gymnastics, love her!!!!
1. Michael Phelps wining 8 gold medals, 14 for his career, and watching all his intense races. This guy is just insanely amazing!!! When he won by a fingernail, that was just crazy, plus he's pretty good-looking!!!


This is going to be a short entry for me today because I'm posting in the morning, and well nothing hasn't really happened yet. But I was so eager to do the Thursday Thirteen so I posted early. I will put up another dance pik for you...yay!

Ok, well it's not dance in the sense that we're dancing in the picture but it was taken just after we danced and at our dance studio. And no we aren't dripping with sweat from all our hard work. This summer during one of our breaks the four of us walked over to the nearby Whataburger to have a bite to eat (Well they ate, I dislike Whataburger). On the way it started raining, nothing too hard but enough for it to be FREEZING when we walked into Whataburger. So while we were in their it started to POUR!! It was also really windy which made the rain stronger. So we ran all the way back to the studio and decided...hey why not dance in the rain?? Yeah it was so much fun! Of course once we got dried off just a bit and tried to do our Praise Dance it wasn't so fun when we kept sticking to the floor. Oh well it was worth it! "Life is too short to not dance in the rain." -Larisa. So I really recommend that if it's pouring outside, or even just a bit of a sprinkle make the most of it. Don't sit inside feeling bored, get out there and LIVE!