Reach the Beach Competition

Last weekend, Nina and I were in Ocean City for her team’s participation in the Reach the Beach competition.

We were excited to be staying at the team hotel right on the beach, but it was so foggy, you can barely see the beach in our background.  The 2-day competition was at the Ocean City Convention Center, and there were tons of teams and people there for the event.

  

FitWize Fearless had a great first day at the competition.  They had fun, did a clean routine, and left the convention center to head back to the hotel where all the fun really kicked off!  The girls had the best time hanging out in the hotel together, visiting the Starbucks across the parking lot, and heading down to the hotel pool and beach for short bursts.  They stayed up late on Saturday night, taking over the hallways and common areas of our floor, and it was like pulling teeth to get Nina back in the room by 10:30 that night.

 

Thankfully, she got a good night’s sleep, and we had some time on Sunday morning before we had to get ready for day 2 of the competition.  After arriving early to meet the team, waiting for warm-ups, and finally watching the girls take the stage to perform, one minute into their performance, the music stopped and an announcement came over the loud speaker that the entire convention center needed to evacuate the building.  It was a little frantic (based on all that has been happening in the news lately), but we all found our girls, stuck together, and made our way out to the parking lot.  We ended up waiting over an hour in the parking lot (along with hundreds of other people) before OCFD deemed it safe to go back into the building.  Once everyone got back in and settled down, the girls got back on the stage to start their performance over again.  After all that drama, we were so impressed that they did another clean routine and looked great!

They didn’t end up winning the competition, and they were sad about that, but they all said that they had such a fun weekend.  The time making memories at the hotel, deepening friendships, and competing together made for a fun and memorable weekend!  We got home super late on Sunday night, so we were quite exhausted by the end of the weekend, but thankfully we arrived home safe and sound and happy to see Mark, Lyla, and Cayenne!