7 to 17 in 7: Olympics Crosland Style

Monday, June 18, 2012

Olympics Crosland Style

The greatest part of having adult children is knowing that you can delegate responsibilities to your children and realize that they will do a better job than you would do. It is awesome!! I embraced that even more this year with our Lake Powell Vacation.
I love the Olympics and I feel it is our patriotic duty to watch every moment that is possible when they are on. How excited I am that they will soon be happening. Since we always want to have some type of theme on our vacation I decided that a patriotic theme would be appropriate and we could hold our own Olympics. I found some wonderful patriotic shirts and delegated to my daughters the job of planning and presenting our Olympics.

Amy became the Chairman with Carly and Carrie being her associates. It was so fun though we didn't even get close to finishing all that Amy had planned. When you ask Amy to do something it is done over the top!!

It began with dividing into teams and picking our countries. Then an obstacle course was undertaken by two person teams. One person had to throw a football through a hoop, then another member went down the slide and swam with a noodle like a horse over to the kayaks where the first person was waiting to kayak out and turn around coming back to shore where they had to disembark and run to the horse shoes and be the first to throw a ringer. It was a crazy few minutes and so much fun to watch.

We then had great "Minute to Win It" games between countries. Incredibly original and fun.

One of the games was to try and put the cowboy hat which was attached to a hook on a fishing pole on your head with your eyes closed.

Then if you couldn't do it with your eyes closed you tried it with your eyes open.

When the children were getting tired we called it a night and had our closing ceremony where Amy and Luke had bought Chinese Floating Lanterns that we drew something that was meaningful to us on them.