Sports Day

Today was Sports Day at the kids school.  They had races and soccer matches and all kinds of fun.  Unfortunately I missed the girls races as I thought they started at 11:30 but they started earlier.  By the time I got there I was only able to watch with them and cheer on their friends for the final races.  After all the children had their races they had a parents race and a teachers race.  The girls really wanted me to run in the parents' race so I gave it a go barefoot since I didn't want to run in my flip flops.  I'm happy to report I was the first woman across the finish line.  The exciting part of the parents' race though was when one of the dad's running the race fell and pulled both hamstrings.  He was a good sport about it and took the ribbing quite well.  It added a good story to go with sports day.  After all the races and lunch the kids were presented with awards.  The school is broken up into houses which is apparently a British thing (think Harry Potter).  The Early Years kids are not part of any house yet and therefore they all got first place medals.  The primary kids all belong to one of three houses.  The kids all win points for their houses and then whichever house has the most points wins.  Sofia's house, Hus, came in first place today.  She was very excited to get a first place medal.