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Well, well. Another amazing LOOT summer adventure has come to close. I sadly drove Roberto to the airport this afternoon, I know he was very anxious to be with his family again. They were all going to welcome him at the airport and then go on a family holiday together. However, I did see a bit of sadness in his eyes about the ending of our summer. He is an amazing coach and human being. How many coaches out there are this talented in their field and also agree to live in all kinds of arrangements all summer long, drive a van/bus full of ipod blaring kids whilst towing a large trailer, be with our children virtually 24/7, repair boats, play sports pyschologist, play psuedo parent, etc. etc.?  I told him by the time his children reach our children's ages he will be the perfect expert parent!
Let's reflect on moments of the summer: Sailing and lots of it, in almost every kind of wind condition, training, racing, seeing the team's results climbing up the result sheets, our welcome dinner at the Turners, swimming, water trampolining, tubing, power boating, tsunamis, music videos, roller coasters, Roberto's first time on a roller coaster and likely his last, long crazy drives arriving at "ungodly" hours and then to turn around a race again the next day, our amazing team dinner, the Eiseners goofy joke gifts and speeches, our yummy and gorgeous loot cake, our team photo books, our wonderful team photo, the girls new team name "LOST"( Lake Ontario Shopping Team), the singing, the teasing, the laughing, the throwing up ( Roberto, Georgia and Sebby!) and, yeah, some crying but all in way to help our children grow into strong, confident young adults.
Thank you to everyone for all your help, your parents and friends help, your support, effort, kindness, humour and for having your kids be part of this magical thing called LOOT. Enjoy the rest of the summer and hope to cross paths with you all again. Over and out for LOOT 2012!
Ingrid and Gord

CORK Day 2

Hi everyone, since many of you are here much of this is irrelevant but thought I email whole group. Weather turned out to be lovely today ( not what weather man was calling for) they did 3 races with similar wind to yesterday but a little stronger overall. Results are now up and loot has 7 members in the top 14 and the whole team is firmly planted well into the top half. Sadly, Sebby coil not sail today. She was throwing up all night and has been sleeping all day. Good news is that she seems better now and is holding juice down. We are doing everything we can to get her ready for her big trip to china to Tomorrow ! 

Our team dinner is tonight. Wish you were all here. I love all your kids! They are so great. Just watching them in action last night, they have really come together as a team! Just one more day..Ingrid

Results:

1st Ceci
2nd Mikey
7th Georgia
8th Jessica
9th James
12th Jillian
14th Christian
20th Cameron
26th Declan

Sebby sick

CORK - Day 1

Hi all, so sorry for taking so long to connect with you all! It has been a whirlwind day. Team arrived at the dorms at 3:45 am (not kidding!) boys went to sleep ASAP but girls, believe it or not, I had to shhh at 4 am! They slept in til about 9:30 and after  quick breakie off to harbor to unload boats, rig , competitor meeting and racing. Weather held out, and they completd 3 races. Decent wind for 1st race, light and shifty for second and very light for third. Results are up www.corkkingston.ca. Pretty great Showing by loot after not a heck of a lot of sleep! They are great kids, never even appeared tired today at all, ahh the resilience of youth! We are still in Roberto's infamous debrief and then off to bed. Which I might be the first one to go! See many of you tomorrow. Ingrid 

Results Day 1 - 3 races

1st Ceci
2nd Mikey
7th Sebby
9th James
10th Georgia
14th Jillian
23rd Cameron
24th Declan
26th Jessica
27th Christian

On The Road

9:34PM

they are on their way from Newport to Cork - travel is going smooth so far - I have talked to Dan and Jessica a few times.  They will be late to get to cork - but - last I talked to them the van was beginning to quiet! So hopefully they get some sleep in the van - that is the plan - I also know Ingrid has communicated with the drivers all the instructions to get the kids into the dorms as quick and as smooth as possible.

2:55AM

We have arrived at cork 

Final Day New England's

Well we had a delay this morning due to fog and a couple of large ships in the harbor. After postponement they got on the course around noon and have one race done and just starting the second .... No results as yet. We are all set ashore for a quick turn around and hitting the highway to CORK.  More later 

Final Results:

19 Mikey (4th Blue)
27 Ceci
49 Sebby
55 Jessica
67 Jillian
68 James
70 Christian
92 Georgia
116 Cameron
121 Declan

Day Two New England's

Results are preliminary but here they are

Ceci. 21
Mikey. 25
James. 55
Sebby. 56
Christian. 59
Jessica. 64
Jillian. 70
Georgia. 97
Declan. 118
Cameron. 122

Congrats to all the kids for the good showing especially Cameron for moving up 37 places

These could move some as it does not show results of protests