Olympics for Old Folks in Florida

Saturday, February 7, 2015

The third annual Oldlympics for the ancient folks that reside in Ancient Oaks started this morning. The 100 International athletes from USA, Canada, Holland, and other foreign places like Ohio and Okeechobee, were busy making their final preparations for today's ten grueling events. Their countless hours of training and unending sacrifices had these chiseled athletes ready to compete for the most important games of their lives today. You could feel the tension in the air as the teams readied themselves for the opening ceremonies, just moments away.  The air was filled with the scent of analgesic balm and sweaty socks, as each athlete bore a serious look of determination as they put on their knee braces, elbow pads, pampers, jock straps, and checked the batteries in their pace makers!

Marlene and Ginette hosted the opening ceremony!

Let me introduce just a few of the 25 four person teams competing today.

This is the Farmers team.  That's Pappy in the overalls and his three sons Darrell, Darrell, and Larry.  Pappy says he could only remember two names, so when he yells for Darrell, two boys come a runnin!  Larry don't get yelled at too much since Pappy can't remember his name, so he just yells Darrell. The shirts these farmers are proudly wearing say "Farmers, someone's got to feed you people!"

Ken, Ted, Tom & Craig

This team is the Flamingo Girls.  I don't know what country they're from, but it ain't from around here!

Carol,  Norma, Carolyn & Barb

 This team is the Wonder Women team.  As you can see, they are a restin!  I guess that opening ceremony took a lot out of em!

Pat, Barb, Bea & Joan

This is Elma representing the Motley Crew team.  Wonder where they got that team name?

This team is Dawgs Rule.  They are sniffing out their next event.  The lady in the red shirt has to pick up any messes them Dawgs leave.  It's a park rule ya know!

AND NOW...LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

This is me shooting a basket for the Farmers Team.  What style!  What Grace!  What a miss!!

Here's Ted getting ready to shoot.  Our team had zero baskets in four attempts.  Isn't exactly perfection is it?

Here's the Flamingo Girls getting ready for shuffle board.

This is Ken getting ready to hit the Boca Ball while I'm behind him try to figure out what the hell a boca ball is!

This is Carol playing ladder golf. Just throw that thing with two balls on it so it rings around a ladder rung.  It's not easy wearing a ten pound flamingo on your head all day!

Wonder Woman Joan is looking for a marshmallow so she can play marshmallow golf.

"Has anyone seen my Marshmallow?"

This is them there Flamingo Girls again.  Not sure what they're doing here, but somebody may need to pick up after them.  It's a park rule, ya know!

That's me in the casting contest.  I think I just hooked me a palm bass!

Tom playing shuffle board.  You'd never know by the stunned expression on our faces, but he just got us a point!

Ken tossing a washer, and Tom is behind him watching his every move.  He aint never thrown a washer before.

After the ten events were over and the scores for each team were tallied, the winners for each event were awarded medals.  Needless to say, The farmers team didn't win the basketball shoot, but we did win a gold medal for the casting contest and marshmallow golf, and a silver medal for the washer toss.  That was just enough for our team to take first place over all!

Here's the happy Farmers Team with their medals and trophy!

Pappy said it was the first time ever that he was proud of Darrell and Larry...and Darrell.  Then Pappy said if he hadn't wore his overalls, we couldn't have won over all! Our pappy is one wise man!