Ok now the dust has settled.

I can properly blog about our trip. you know about the whole windshield fiasco. That was the only REALLY bad thing that happened the entire weekend. beside the fact that the camera burned up ( yes I mean burned up. about 45 minutes after I started using it, so I have to rely on the kindness of friends to get me pictures this time around. I know there were some really good ones taken. Te tournament went ALL day on Saturday. We were there from 1130 till 8 PM and I know there were people there longer than we were. They sectioned the children by rank and then by age. SO I ended up with 4 kids in four separate rings and was running like a mad woman to see it all. because almost all of my kids are back belt and they are all different ages. my kids remember their favorite judges. I remember min she said she was proud of me because not only was I there but that all my family was involved that was a great thing. the judge I remember best was this little German lady with a VERY thick accent when she was trying to say all the Korean terms they were VERY hard to understand. She did the judging for Janet and Sydnie by the time sydnie was done though we pretty much could discern what she was saying.

As far as the tournament went all of us except for my husband and Christine had to redo the forms. We choked it wasn't pretty. Next time though we will know them and it won't be a problem. HOWEVER. when it came to sparring (which BTW I think I suck at) we did pretty well.

My son was in the gold metal round and so was I ( yeah I know you are shock too.) I lost by 2 and I think sean only lost by one. we both went full time. so Sean and I came out of sparring with silver metals.

(sorry about the quality of the pic they were all done on the camera phone when I get tournament stuff i will post it as well.)



Christine and Tyler came out with Bronze.



Janet and Randy both got honorable mentions and Sydnie got a gold (they all did they are cubs for heaven sake).



THe kids loved the pool at the hotel and I used the stair well as a personal gym so that I could keep up with my training. I jogged and walked over a mile in + 90 degree weather at 10 at night. TO hot from me thanks, the pool was a wonderful cool down though and I was grateful to have it.



The trip home was interesting, we took the LONG way home and went through white sands and Roswell NM. THe sand were fun for the kids and they really enjoyed playing in the sand and making sand angels and burying each other in the sand.



we had a light lunch there and then were on the road again .

Roswell is not as small as the show made it seem but they do like their Aliens .



There were Aliens on the light poles even.

Between white sands and Roswell I think we saw like 20 Catholic Missions. Some were big and grand and others were no more than a one room church. but thy dotted the indian reservation everywhere we looked.



I kept looking for LDS chapels but didn't see any :( I think they are few and far between put there. We were on the road all day and didn't get home till about 1 in the morning just to get up the next day and pretend we never left. My dd's went to a sleep over last night and today is life as normal though I wish it were not.