Olympics

I have a second cousin (I think that is the correct term) on my father's side who is an Olympic Athelete. Her name is Heather Petri and she's on the Women's Water Polo team. This is her third Olympics, they won the silver in 00 and the bronze in 04 and they're number 1 in the world this year and favored to win the gold.

I've never actually met her but I'm still incredibly proud. In 04 they played her matches at weird times so I missed them. Hopefully as they're favored to win this year I can watch them at a relatively normal time.

It's something that I've never been even close to doing and I have such great respect for these athletes. It's just that much cooler that she and I share the same great grandparents and we dearly loved the same great aunt, who passed away not too long before the last Olympics.

So I send all of my good thoughts and confidence to Heather and the whole team and I'll be cheering back here for you!