Olympic Size Hangover

Well, another amazing Olympics has come to an end and I have to say it was a great 2 weeks. I know some didn't like the Opening Ceremony but I did, and the Closing Ceremony was a fun way to end it a big concert. Of course a lot of this music was popular when most of these Olympians weren't born so could have probably been more up to date but still fun. I enjoyed the Spice Girls the most :) As for the games themselves of course USA ended on top of the medal count but it was close for awhile and we trailed the Chinese there for a few days but the Americans always rise to the top. Obviously my favorite events were Gymnastics and Swimming I will fully admit my interest waned a bit once those ended but I still watched. I got goosebumps when the Fierce 5 won the gold for team USA in women's gymnastics, and what a performance by Wieber to come back after the heartbreak of not making the All Around and perform like she did. However, the highlight of the night and the reason everyone should have known they would win gold was on rotation 1 when McKayla Maroney stuck her vault, the world's most difficult vault on the women's side it was amazing. Of course Gabby Douglas became the star of the team becoming the first African American to win the all around gold, and all people wanted to talk about was her hair?? Give me a break people seriously need to get a life. Heard 4 of the 5 say in interviews they want to keep training for Rio we shall see how that works out.

Everyone wanted to talk about Phelps vs Lochte in the swimming, but I think the real stars were on the women's team, Missy Franklin for one she was awesome!! What a personality she was bound for super stardom. It will be interesting to see if she sticks to her choice of turning down millions in endorsements to maintain eligibity for college. I also enjoyed watching Allison Schmidt(sp??) She seemed awesome and loved that she was so loose laughing and joking before her events and then boom turned it on in the pool. I am not a huge fan of Phelps, but it was neat to see him break the all time medals record. I do hesitate to tag him greatest Olympian of all time though swimming has so many more opportunities to win medals, what about Misty May and Kerri Walsh who won their 3rd straight gold never losing, and only losing 1 set?? Or Bolt he is a freak of nature on the track? So, I prefer to stick with calling him the most decorated :) What made me mad was his mom continuing to say I want him to train for Rio so I can go to Rio. I seriously would have told her get your fat ass in the pool and train then if you want to go so bad.

Other sports, I found myself getting into archery, maybe it was the Hunger Games influence, I also read on ESPN that Archery was the most watched sport on the cable networks meaning it beat soccer, and basketball. Again wonder how much of that was the influence of Katniss and the Hunger Games. Diving oh man I knew the results for the platform when Purdue's David Boudia won gold and I was still nervous!! That was a fantastic competition, and when Boudia got on the medal platform gave the Boiler Up arm how cool was that?! Sorry Shife and Travis just never got into the soccer I watched a few mins of one of the prelim games and I will say I am a fan of Wambach, and I am happy they won gold. So, who all watched?? What was your favorite events, favorite performer at the closing ceremony??

For those that asked Holiday World was AWESOME!! We had a great time and the weather was perfect. 13 of us went and we left our house at 6:40am to meet at my sister's and got there around noon which was technically 11 in the county we were in. Did the amusement park the first day which meant COASTERS!! I can proudly say I got 4 bruises on my back from the Legend, at first I thought it was three but my sister pointed another out when we were at the water park. I actually for the first time in going to amusement parks bought an on ride picture. I took my nephew on the Voyage for the first time in his life and it's one of the biggest wooden coasters in the world and the faces were priceless so I splurged and got it for him to keep. I have to say though my sister owes me I almost got like rug burn from trying to hold him in. I am not a huge fan of water parks for a lot of reasons, but Holiday World has one of the best around. I had a great time there too except my feet hurt bad. The highlight was riding their new water coaster which holds six so My sister, one of her sons, our friend Lisa, and I were in a raft with 2 strangers and my sister proceeded to cuss all the way through the ride because she wasn't a fan it was great!! After the water park closed we closed down the amusment park side leaving around 10 our time. Got back home at 3:40am ya it was a long ride. Although riding in my sister's van had perks like getting to watch The Great Outdoors, and The Blindside on the way home. Oh yeah we stayed in a creepy little town that reminded me of a Stephen King novel.

Well, the train is coming kids with it August football season is right around the corner and the first week these came in the mail to which I shrieked with excitementI think we're gonna be decent, I could see us going 7-5, 6-6 again I know to some of you that doesn't sound good but we're still trying to turn a corner. Our division really opened up in the Big Ten with OSU and PSU both not eligible to play for the Big Ten title, means it's Wisconsin, IU, Illinois, and us competitng for the leader's division. Should be interesting.

That's all I got for ya I am going to need guest pickers again this year if people are interested again :)
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