While driving home last night from EvieG's choir practice, she began to ask questions about the timing of the Olympics. Generally, she is a kid of order and can't quite wrap her head around her perceived gaps in the order of things.
EvieG: Mom, when is the next winter Olympics going to be?
DDM: Well, 4 years from now. There is a Winter Olympics, then a Summer Olympics in 2 years, and then 2 more years after that is the Winter Olympics again. They take turns every 2 years.
EvieG: Oh. But why don't they have it every year?
DDM: You know, it takes a lot of time and money to plan for all of the events and for all of the athletes to train (just guessing here, not an Olympic expert).
EvieG: But why don't they have Spring and Fall Olympics?
DDM: Well, they group the sports into the ones you do in the winter time like skiing, skating, and hockey and the ones you do in the summer, like running, swimming, and rowing.
EvieG: I think they should have Olympics every season. I know what I would do for the Spring Olympics.
DDM: Oh ya? What's that?
EvieG: Watching the rain fall.
I burst out laughing. I explained that watching the rain is sometimes about all you can do in the Spring on certain days.
And where is the sport in that? Lifting the remote control.
All's I'm sayin's all.
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