Regionals - Pleasanton, CA

 Tessa and I flew to Pleasanton, California for her Regionals meet.

She asked if we could go back to Pier 39 since we were so close again. We had a few hours to kill until we could check into our hotel, so it was perfect.

This staircase was so cool! It plays notes with each step. We made some beautiful music. :)

We were so excited to go back to the Candy Baron and stock up on taffy again. :)

After we checked into our hotel, we went across the street to the mall. Regionals was in Pleasanton last year too, so we stayed at the same hotel and were so excited to go back to the mall. We had a lot of success! Macy's had a ton of clearance racks and we dug through them and found some super cute stuff. After dinner, we did a little shopping with Morgan and Stacey and then we went to the pool. Tessa and Morgan were making funny hairstyles. :)

We went back to the mall with Morgan and Stacey the next day and dug through more clearance racks. The girls were posing like all the mannequins. Haha!

Then it was meet time!!

Naomi, Tessa, Morgan, Ellie, Lexi, and Nellie

Arete started on floor and Tessa did great!! Her back was still hurting quite a bit, so we weren't sure how floor would go, but she did awesome. She scored 9.575.

Vault was next and she did well on that too! She scored 9.375.

Next was bars. She had a stall before her squat-on, but besides that she looked pretty good. I was shocked when her score was 8.225. I've watched the video and I can see it wasn't her strongest routine ever, but I'm honestly confused by that low of a score. A couple girls from her team fell, or lost their momentum and swung and swung trying to get it back, and they both scored higher than Tess. Stacey expressed her confusion and frustration with Tessa's score too and I appreciated that. It was frustrating.

Beam was last and she did well. It wasn't her strongest routine of the season, and she scored 8.75.

Tessa tied for 4th on vault.

And she tied for 5th on floor.

She tied for 11th place All-Around with 35.925.

Tessa was pretty disappointed, but she didn't stay feeling down for long. We went to dinner with Morgan and Stacey, and then Lexi and Staci came to our hotel and the girls swam. She had a lot of fun with her friends that night.