The DB Big Race.......

The big Dragon Boat Festival is finally here all weekend out at Mother's Beach. We started bright and early arriving at 7:30am on Saturday morning. Our 1st race wasn't until 2pm but the morning seemed to go by fast with all the chit chatting with the team and festivities. When race time came Mommy & Daddy were on the blue team. Daddy paddled and Mommy was the drummer. We did really well! We came in 4th place with a time of 2 minutes and 54 seconds. Not too shabby! Mommy was so excited since it was her 1st race ever and she was so nervous. Then we got to rest up and have lunch and waited around for our 2nd race at 6pm. We got out on the water and they had to call us back since it was getting late and past our time on the beach. So we had to come back bright and early on Sunday for the very 1st race. Sunday we had to arrive even earlier at 6:30am since we had an 8:30am race time. We did great this time too! We raced our own team which was the White team and we had our own bet going to see who was going to win.....good thing it was our Blue team! Yippee! It felt so good to do well.
We came in 3rd this time which was fantastic! Coming at at 2 minutes and 49 seconds. Huge improvement! We had qualified for an additional race at around 2ish but we didn't do so hot there. I think our time was like our first race on Saturday but that didn't get us anywhere. We ended up being the 2nd to last team coming in out of 7 teams. So that called it a weekend for us. Everyone was just pooped! Didn't seem like a lot of races but it was very draining for everyone with the early mornings, late nights and sun. All in all we all had a blast! Can't wait until next year! Thanks to AT&T and APCA for putting all this together for us!

Dragon Mak & Daddy checking out the fancy Dragon Boats.....See they're really dragons on them!
Dragon Mak & Grandma blowing the bubbles that Auntie Lilo gave us! Lots of bubbles! One of Dragon Mak's most favorite things to do lately!
Uncle Kent and his famous 1 hand holding Dragon Mak way up high! He's so strong! It was good seeing you Uncle Kent and having you slumber at our house!
Dragon Mak's personalized t-shirt by Auntie Lilo. Mak loved watching the Dragon Boats go by......
Mak with her friend Jack playing with bubbles again, Jack's mom Kimberly took care of breakfast for us. Thanks for giving us energy food! She's a board member for APCA.
Finally a picture with my Mommy getting ready to drum away! Go Blue team!