ater the three women came up from the mud. Leanne and Alejandra were sputtering and laughing, Carrie came up more slowly looking less impressed, especially when she saw all the other girls there, including her two daughters, having a good hard laugh.

"Yes that was very nice you two, but I'd prefer to get permission."

"What weren't you just begging to go in" asked Leanne

"Yes, but I wanted to get somethings done first and it looks like that may be hard now, uhh," she said slightly annoyed

'well I suppose I'll at least match my daughter's now' thought Carrie.

"Diane, Josie, come, we need to get cleaned up"

"aww why" whined Diane semi sarcastically "I'm having such a nice time relaxing here"

"because we are here as a family and I'd like to have some photos of us looking nice at least"

"Are you implying we don't look fabulous right now?" Diane said while strutting out of the pit and striking a pose

"No. You are a very beautiful girl so of course you look wonderful. But I'm not certain many boys would agree with me is all I'm saying dear"

"well alright fine but we are coming back right, I mean it would be quite embarrassing if we were to be the only women here to NOT be a swamp monster wouldn't it" asked Josie

"Yes of course"

Josie then left the pit and walked next to her sister while Carrie was about to leave when she felt the top of her head and noticed something was off.

"Hey! where did my hat go"

"Here of course" replied Keiko while plopping it on her head. I didn't see it but it looked like a few seconds earlier she had filled the thing with mud as a lot of it began to cascade down Carrie's head and hair.

"Yes think you sweetie" said Carrie clearly at least a little annoyed. She then got up and out of the pit and the three of them went up the hill.

"Say mom I didn't see you fill your gloves" said Josie "isn't that why you went to get them?"

"We will get to that later honey, we just need to get washed off now".

back down in the pit the five girls appeared to be playing water chicken (only in mud) with daughter on mother. Keiko, having her mother left in Japan, was the ref. It was a bit hard to tell but it looked like Sofia and Alejandra won if only because Melissa's dress was heavier.

they were on the last round when I heard two girls make a bet.

"So whoever loses has to stay jump in and stay like that for the next 24 hours deal?"

I recognized the voice as belong to one Elizabeth Tomich, the girl she was talking to was named Farah Hashemi. The two girls were two of the other girls whom Charlotte had looked over while working as an RA. Elizabeth was a blonde haired brown eyed girl standing at about 4'9" but looked around 5 feet today with the heels. She also wore a bright green short sleeved dress with a knee length pleated shirt, her make was done to emphasize her full cheeks and she had a nice head band and big dangling earrings. Farah was Persian girl who had a nice tan and pretty face, her hair was typically bushy although it appeared that she had ironed it out for the occasion. She wore a nice dark red dress with a full skirt knee length skirt all of which had a nice flower pattern on it.

"hey guys what's up?" I asked

"Oh hey Mrs. Rosenberg, You've been awfully quiet today" said Elizabeth

"Yeah I know, I just haven't really known what to say as I've never really been to a wedding like this before. I did make a bet with someone that Rose could out run her mother though."

"How much you lose?" asked Farah

"Only about twenty bucks. What are you guys doing?"

"Me and Farah here are betting on who wins this match. Whoever wins gets two bucks and whoever loses has to jump in and cover themselves head to toe in mud and stay that way for twenty four hours"

"Hmm. Does that include night?"

"Of course but after this we were planning on visiting my cousin up who lives in a rural part of the state. They have a pretty nice Pig Pen"

suddenly we heard Keiko announce the final match and all went up there to watch.

"so where is Rachel if I may ask?"

"She said that she wanted to come but apparently her only good dress got messed up and she had the replacement didn't come in on time." said Eliza

"She probably didn't want to stand out to much" laughed Farah.

I chuckled too and started to watch the match. I don't know what changed in between turns but suddenly it the Johnsons were able to over come their balancing issues, and once that was done, the height advantage for Melissa as able to be taken into full affect and was able to push Sofia and Alejandra causing them to lose their balance and slip into the mess before being tackled.

"game set, winner Melissa and Leanne"

"Well you know what that means. don't you LIE-ZA?" Said Farah with a Smirk

"Oh I do" replied Elizabeth before giving her friend a shove and sending her flailing and screaming into the pit below where she was 100 percent engulfed upon impact. A few seconds later, Farah came up sputtering and yelling in not quite mock anger.

"Uhhhh that was gross"

"Hey it's not my fault that you forgot to close your mouth" Emily retorted

"somebody get her!" yelled Farah

Right afterwards I saw a girl named Jane Macdonald, lunge at her. She was a friend of Charlotte's from high school, she was also a swimmer which showed in her more muscular physique (though still feminine) and tan. Her long brown hair was tied in a pony tail. Today she wore a tight fitting purple satin pantsuit.

Elizabeth was quick though and managed to dodged the girl, who in turn, lunged herself right off the edge and into the mud. Elizabeth then ran off to go somewhere else.

"Great job there" said Farah in a sarcastic manner.

"hey I did what I could"

"what's your name anyways? I don't believe we have met"

"Jane. Friend of the bride."

"Farah also a friend of the Bride. I was also dorm mates with these fine young ladies"

"sup" "konichiwa" "hey"

"and that girl up there I was supposed to tackle"

"Her name is Elizabeth, also a dorm mate."

"she pretty cool" said Melissa

"she was kind of annoying in the beginning though. She acted like I don't know any English for first month" Keiko replied

"She did lend me this dress. She just said to make sure nothing happens to it. I didn't bring over any from Japan" Keiko continued

"and how is that working out for you?" asked Sofia sarcastically

"hey it's not like I had choice. besides I will pay her back later."

"say where did she go."

"I don't know but I have something I want to do" said Jane

"follow me"

The college girls then got up and went up the hill. Leanne and Alejandra meanwhile went over to where Julia and Clara were and sat back and let the mud soak in. By now Clara and Julia had removed their shoes and the two mothers of the college students followed. The four of them appeared to be laughing about something on top of that.

"attention everyone. I have decided to have diving competition come over here if you are interested." yelled Jane.

9 women then approached them alongside the five already there. Of the new people it was five clean and four muddy already.

"so the rules are simple. You will come up to the end of the dock and perform some sort of jump off. Points will be chosen based on style and creativity. The winner will get fifteen dollars and get to choose which currently clean woman gets thrown in next. Are we Ready"

They were about to start when we heard a voice

"Hey wait for me I'm going too"

"Oh hello Ms. Fields glad you want to come"

"Please, call me Clara, I think we can look past the formalities now that you are an adult as well as this" she said indicating her ruined own ruined outfit.

"Oh yes Clara. Anyways, I assume you heard me say the rules, and it is good to have you as all of us at the school remember your impressive diving technique"

What Jane was referring to was an incident at Junior prom that my daughter had told me about. From what I had heard the whole thing was at some kind of outdoor garden party and included many rows of flowers, lights and a very beautiful path that lead to an area where many of them were to make out with each other (this is as much as my daughter was willing to say), but also a pool. What occurred was that one girl who was being harrased by a bee stumbled close to the pool. while she managed to avoid falling her purse did slip off. Seeing the incident Clara then did a quick yet graceful dive into the pool still wearing her long dress.
She retrieved it in time so that the girls phone and other things of importance were not too destroyed. As it was rather hot that day Clara had actually stayed in the pool though (according to my daughter) she was not joined by many.

Clara nodded that she had heard the rules and the competition began.

"In order to balance out everything we will have two competitions one clean and one muddy. any girl from the clean can join in the muddy one afterwards if they so wish we will go one clean one muddy so get in a line guys"

The first girl up was Emily. She did a nice catwalk up the dock to show off her dress. She had managed to wipe most of the excess mud off her it was still a far cry from the original crisp white it had been before, from what I've heard from Jacob the dress still carries a bright brown hue, though apparently that hasn't stopped her from continuing to wear it to many important events. her tactic was to step off into a polite female bow midair before making a soft landing in the mud.

The second girl as well as the first clean one was another of the groom's sisters this one named Sasha. She looked very much like her sister just a little bit taller, and her hair was longer. She was twenty years old, and more a dress just like her sisters layered skirt big and just below the knees. the only difference was that her was purple and had been absorbing some of the heat. She ran off and did a cannonball that was pretty intense that some mud almost reached the peak of the dock. She of course went all the way under.

"well looks like our dresses match in color to huh sis?" said Emily.

From the pictures taken later it really was the same dress now but thats for another time.

Next up was Rose who unlike the Emily appeared to have left most of the mud on her dress intact. watching he walk up it had clearly gotten noticably heavier. her move was simply to look behind her before doing what is best described as a muddy belly flop, although I didn't hear a loud smack so it hopefully wasn't as painful.

After her went a woman named Jamie Manson. She had previously been charlottes babysitter but the two had grown a close bond even managing to become friends outside of my home despite the fact that she was about ten years older. during her babysitting years she had at times gotten quite messy for a variety of reasons, though I don believe it was ever in anything quite as formal as this long floor length red dress, shawl and cardigan that she was wearing today. Her strawberry blond hair had been done into a stylish up do for the occasion. she simply got to the edge and did a half flip in the hair before splating face first into the mud

Next up was Linda Davidson. since we had already seen her dive in twice before during this day we were mostly expecting about the same she surprised however by running to the edge and pretending to trip (at least she claims it was pretending) before landing on her butt in the mud.

Following was a woman named Amy Lawrence. She was short at only about 5 feet. Everything about her was short really from her yellow dress that was two or three inches above the knees her small gloves, and her brown bob hair style. I believed that she was one of Jacobs new in employees some of whom he had decided to invite to the wedding as a sign of good relationships. Her move was a rather simple dive although it did look rather graceful to tell you the truth.

Behind her was Julia. Who seemed to have definently cooled down since her trip in the mud. she told us that she didn't really know anything impressive so she again grabbed her nose this time blowing some mud out of it before doing a scuba fall again. this time upon landing she slowly lowered herself in like a submarine before popping back up to the cheers of all of us women watching.

After her was someone named Donna rawlin. She was appearance wise the opposite of the last Amy as she wore I long green dress with embroidery along the bodice, long gloves to and her blond hair had been curled at the ends, she also wore a wide brimmed hat. she threw the hat out before jumping at just the right time for it to land back on her head where she just took the jack knife position and went entirely under, hat and all.

Next was Clara who many of us had been waiting for given Jane's appraisal of her technique. we were not let down as she managed to pull off something of a spinning flip both spinning and rotating. the downside of course was that she did get mud everywhere which many of us still weren't quite ready for.

Last was my one of my sisters, Ruth. Today she had been dressed in a large frilly gold gown with multiple layers of petticoats and even some ruffles underneath. she wore long gold opera gloves dingling diamond earrings make up fully done to perfection and her hair had been made up in a gorgeous do that took two hours to complete (I was with her during the appointment). If there was anyone here dressed to compete with the bride it was her and it was almost a shame seeing this outfit and do go to waste, but hey it was for the greater good.
She was something of gymnist when we were younger and she showed that by doing a running routine followed by a cartwheel before jumping off into a flip and doing the splits (or as much of it as she could do).

"well I think all of judges know our answer right"

all the girls nodded

"ok so the winner is drum roll please"

everyone started doing an exaggerated drumroll before we heard a voice yell wait.

we looked over to see the now soggy vandelay girls.