O, 63.
O, six, three.
G, 58.
G, five, eight.
My girlfriend and I have been coming to bingo
for 40 years together.
I, 19. I, one, nine.
I look forward to Wednesdays and Fridays
because the staff here is wonderful.
They're very friendly. Well, and winning money.
Bingo on 0, six, nine. Where is that bingo?
There it is, in the purple section on the aisle.
(SYNCHRO SISTERS)
And one, two, three, four, five, six.
One, two, three, four, five, six.
One, two, up, up, up, up, up.
Good. The bottom's only too big. Yes, a little smaller.
The theme of our routine is flamingo Spanish style,
so we try to create and show off the dance of the...
of the music.
There is a part of the routine, for example,
where we have girls forming, like, two triangles, and
it opens up, and it looks like the big skirts,
like in the flamingo dancing,
and I just love the Spanish attitude and style of music.
It just gives me energy and, like, passion,
and I want to show that in the routine.
One, two, three, four, five. Come on.
Set.
(AQUANUTS PRACTICE WALNUT CREEK CA)
The Aquanuts, they have a cool routine,
and it's kind of different. Their theme is nerds.
Um, I like their music, it's kind of, like, fun.
Since West Zone, we've been refining
both of our major programmes - our team and our combo.
So now, like, our team is kind of in
more of the details phase.
Hopefully would have liked to do that a little bit earlier,
and you know the meet is... we leave next week,
but it's never too late to get better.
Ava, come up strong. Everyone.
We've been adding so many hours and training really hard,
and I would say we're at a pretty good point
knowing that nationals is in a week, but we still have a lot
of work to do running our routines a lot,
and really getting used to our new choreography,
cos we revamped our routines,
and we hope to have better results at nationals.
I almost never tell my friends about all the things
we have to do as parents
because they think it's absolutely not normal,
and they'll say, "Why? Why would you do all of this?"
So I just quietly do it
and never say how many things we have to do.
Like, volunteering hours.
When people hear that she has to be at practice
at 7.45 on Sunday, I find it raises a lot of questions...
..but also, the friends they wonder why we do it,
but at the same time, they chip in and they help out.
Like, I remember one time, when there were two of them, and
I had to do something like 30 volunteer hours in one weekend,
and it was...
I didn't know how I would do it because there was bingo,
there was volunteering for my son's swim team
and then for Yara's swim show,
and then all of the friends in the community they said...
they took a shift for me, and it was so neat
because everybody... somebody did one show,
somebody went to the swim meet, and I had to do bingo so,
yeah, but it was very special. I still remember it.
Both of our clubs, us and Santa Clara, are unique because
we have a lot of resources,
and we're able to have a lot of resources because of bingo.
There's a good bingo out there. There ain't none and seen,
none to code that game closed with one winner.
Pay that lucky winner $250.
Aquamaids is supported through the bingo dollars,
and that is totally manned by volunteers
that are parents of our swimmers.
So our swimmers generally start at age six or seven,
and so a parent who is volunteering for bingo
isn't doing that once a week for one year.
They're doing that for ten years or more
because a good synchronised swimmer is a commitment
by the entire family.
G, 50. G, five, zero.
Our bingo business has grown from a few million dollars
to over ten million dollars in gross receipts a year.
Without that, we wouldn't be able to pro...
- do the work we do. - O, 63, O, six, three.
(AQUANUTS BINGO HALL, WALNUT CREEK, CA)
I, 17.
Parent commitment to the Aquanuts involves bingo.
We have different levels of commitment starting from
peanuts, the youngest swimmers,
and they're usually beginning families so
they'll usually do maybe one shift per quarter.
I'm a junior parent so I do nine shifts.
54.
Six.
So a shift could start anywhere from like five o'clock, and
go until we're finished, maybe around 10.30,
and then some other shifts like the manager and the treasurer
work until all the money's counted
and everything's closed out,
and that usually goes till about
usually around midnight we're out of here.
When she was little, I would work full eight hours at work,
and then I would go to bingo, and I remember one day
I worked that, and at ten o' clock, I thought
"OK, that's... I can go home now,"
and then the manager says,
"Let's just sell one more game,"
and I started crying because I couldn't take it.
It was just so difficult to be thinking about selling
one more game at 11 o'clock
after 16 hour day, work day...
..and after that, I decided I'm not going to think any more
about how difficult it is. I'm just going to do it.
I, 30.
Here you go. 1,325 flush.
Oh, thank you so much. All right. All right.
Good. Glad to have this. Thanks, Andy.
1,325.
If we didn't have this bingo business,
probably most of our membership wouldn't be able to afford
to be members because it offsets
a lot of the expenses for membership.
Six, zero.
Zero, five, one.
The biggest expenses being our coaching staff.
Travel expense is another huge expense.
Suits are another big expense.
They could be up to about $300 a suit.
Zero, five, one is another valid winning ticket.
We're getting up to $100,000 per month.
So, you know, do the math on that times 12 months -
if we keep this trend going,
we'll be, you know, well over a million dollars.
Another possible bingo at the end of row four.
This morning I had practice, and I had to leave early,
and then rush to my hair appointment
to get ready for prom.
The coaches, they seem to let everyone out
when it's their prom day.
They let everyone out early.
They won't deny anyone prom.
Anything else, they're, like, not very willing to let people
skip practice or leave early.
So I miss a lot of, like, social events,
and I don't really hang out with my friends that much.
Lexie, are you getting paid for this?
I wish.
That's funny.
Do you feel like a movie star?
Yeah.
I don't like it when all the attention is on me.
I know you don't.
OK, I'm finishing stuff.
Haley!
Haley! We're your biggest fans.
(HALEY'S JUNIOR PROM PARTY, WALNUT CREEK, CA)
Today I was on a task. Like I was the task manager.
So, you know, it's all about making sure that she's ready
to go and everything's all set up so that it all...
so that we can pull this thing off, and I think we did it.
I think she looked happy as she headed out of here
so that's great because this is her junior prom.
This is... This is an event that she'll always...
Sorry. It's a really...
- Sorry. - No.
You can stop if you want, but...
I just want it to be really special for her because
she doesn't get, um,
she doesn't get many opportunities to just be with
her friends and be spontaneous and do normal things.
(AQUAMAIDS PRACTICE, SANTA CLARA, CA)
All right, team. I have the suits for the competition.
They're really awesome. They just fixed all the straps
so we're gonna try them on today
with walk-on and everything, dive in, see if they fit,
and then we can compete in there.
So grab your own suit. The names are in here.
So maybe you guys can help me.
Go around.
- Emily. Ray. - I got...
- Cool. - OK.
- RL, RL? - That's me.
OK, let's get quickly changed, like 30 seconds,
and then we'll try the walk-on.
Being so close to nationals is exciting
cos all of our hard work is going to pay off, and, like,
we're going to get our, like,
to show our routine to the whole nation.
This is it. This is the end of the season, and, like,
everything you've done has led up to this.
This is a really important meet for our club.
We get the chance to compete for everyone in the country.
It's really fulfilling
that we get to swim our hearts out for everyone.
(COMING UP ON SYNCHRO SISTERS)
The biggest event of the year is the National Championships
in Tucson, Arizona.
Yara, very late. Stick, stick.
All the other clubs always look to Walnut Creek and Santa Clara
to produce the best product.
Knowing that was our final days together,
that's just when all the emotions started to flood in.
- What, what happened? - Someone's passing out.
Oh, God. Oh.
Get 'em. Get her! Get her out!