Sickie at a Swim Meet

Josie had her 4th home swim meet on Sunday.  Liz and Stephanie wanted to come and watch her swim and were very interested in seeing our day to day life.  It was cool that a swim meet just so happened to fall on the weekend they were here.

Josie has been suffering through a pretty bad cold - deep cough, low energy, low fever and all over fatigue.  But whenever you ask her how she feels she says adamantly "I'M FINE!!" So it has been hard to tell if she is sick or just a moody preteen or what.  We made her rest as much as possible around the Cottbus and shopping trips on Friday and Saturday.
On Sunday she and Marty had to get up at 6:15 in order to get on a bus in order for her to get to her swim meet on time.  I have to say that these early morning Sunday swim meets are truly the one and only time I wish we had a car.  On Sundays the buses run much less frequently and especially at such an early hour.  So we have to catch an extra early bus and if for some reason you miss it another one doesn't come for an additional 20 minutes or so.

So she had to get up extra early and Benjamin and I followed about 90 minutes later.  He loves to drink coffee.  His mostly has half milk and some sugar and other half coffee.  But this morning he and I shared by second cup of coffee while riding the Sbahn together.
When we showed up she was sitting on a heater just shivering.  The pools are SOO incredibly warm that nearly of the adults bring beach attire (shorts, tank tops, flip flops) just to bear the heat so the fact that she was shivering told us something was up.  She swam her first race and came in 2nd place by a split second.  Then she went right back to sitting on the heater and shivering.
After maybe half an hour more of this we just decided it was silly to keep her at the meet and push her when clearly she was sick.  We had to find a replacement for Marty because for the first time he actually was the one and only announcer... just in time to bail out early!!  There is one more swim meet so we will see if he actually does the entire job by himself.

Stephanie and Liz gave one last hug before we headed for home an they headed for the train station.  They had to take a train that day to Frankfurt for their early morning flight back to Seattle the following morning. It was SO SO nice to have them here.  They were so easy going and enthusiastic about our life here.
After our goodbyes we walk to the first of two trains and a bus to get us home.  Josie is pretty lethargic and warm and ready for a long nap.  Normally swim meets aren't over until 2PM but since we left early it was only 11AM.  She would have the whole day to hopefully rest and recover.