Western US Regionals

 Tessa and I flew out to Pleasanton, California for the Western US Regionals Meet. Arden, Posey, Milan and Coach Leslie were on our flight. Arden and Tessa had fun sitting with each other on the plane.

We walked over to the mall after we got all settled in our hotel room. We window-shopped and then ate dinner at California Pizza Kitchen. Tessa is a big fan of CPK now!

We spent the rest of the night binge-watching Haters Back Off and eating treats.

We ate breakfast at the hotel and then did Tessa's hair while we watched more Haters Back Off. :) We walked to the mall again for lunch and a little more shopping.

Then we made our way to the fairgrounds for the meet. Tessa, Morgan and Arden competed, and we were all so sad that Lexi wasn't able to come because she broke her ankle. :(

Arete started on bars. Tessa did great. It was fun to see her big smile when she finished. She felt really good about how straight her arms and legs were on her kip.

Next was beam, and she wasn't feeling too confident on that. Her back walkover kinda came around the side and she landed very off-balance. She fought very hard to stay on, but eventually crashed down and butt-bounced right off. 

She let her shoulders slump, and then got right back up and finished her routine. I know she was so disappointed that she fell, and also feeling a good amount of pain in her bum. When we were watching the video later, she was proud of how hard she fought to stay on though. After watching the video from the state meet, she was like, "Man, I didn't even try to stay on the beam. I just flopped right off." She was determined to fight if that happened again, and she did. It was great effort!

She did well on floor! She didn't have her usual pep and big smile, and she told me after that she was in her head a bit from the fall on beam still. But all her skills looked great!

Vault was good for her too. She and Lilia decided to have her do two half-ons. Her form looked really good!

Tessa took 3rd on vault with a 9.4

She took 2nd on bars with a 9.375

They medaled out 7 places, and Tessa took 8th on beam with an 8.8. So no medal for beam. She tied for 2nd on floor with a 9.575

She placed 3rd All-Around with a total score of 37.15

Congratulations Tessa Girl!!! You did so good!

We were the last ones in the awards room and so Stacy and I got some cute pictures of Morgan and Tess.

We went to California Pizza Kitchen for dinner again, and Morgan, Minna, and Stacy joined us. Then Tessa and Morgan went swimming back at the hotel.

It was a very fun weekend!! I love these trips with Tessa. We partied pretty hard (and she worked hard!), and she fell right to sleep on the way home from the airport.