And the winner is...

There were several contests to report on this weekend:

Friday night was Home Coming night at Jordan High School. The football team lost their game to Northern Durham. However the band had a contest on the field of their own. As I indicated in my last post, The marching band has a tradition of having each section compete against each other in a costume contest. Tyler and he trumpet section dressed up as Richard Simmons and a group of exercise buffs from the 80's; short shorts ripped sweat shirts, sweat bands etc.. They looked more like a gay exercise troop but that is besides the point. Kyle and the front percussion ensemble (The Pit) dressed up as Dr. Seusse characters. Kyle was a Sneech; one with a star on his belly of course. They also had Cat in the Hat, Thing 1 and Thing 2, The Grinch, and even Cindy Lou Who. The percussion battery (drum line) borrowed uniforms from the cheer leaders. 3/4 of them are guys mind you. The Mellophones dressed up as characters from the Nintendo computer games; Mario etc.. The winning section, Saxes I think, dressed up as Lord of the rings characters. Their costumes were pretty detailed. They did a good job. The Mellophones came in second, and the PIT came in third. The best individual costume of the night was awarded to the Richard Simmons look alike from the trumpet line.

Saturday Morning Team Israel played Team Peru. It was a battle down to the wire. There was lots of good physical play. Again we managed to control the ball the majority of the game. The result was 2-2 tie. We played hard and Israel continues to improve and that is what this is all about. (he keeps reminding himself.) Michelle played well though did not find any opportunity to score this game. Every time she came down the field there were three opposing players on her; which is a good thing actually. She draws the other team out of the middle of the field. She just needs to figure out the timing of when to serve the ball into the middle.

Saturday afternoon, Michelle, Nancy (Ma-In-Law), Karen and I headed to Raleigh for the Capitol City Band Expo. Jordan was one of 18 bands competing. We arrived around 2:30 so we could watch all of the bands in Jordan's competing class. Athens drive was the first band we saw. They beat us earlier in the season and they played well again Saturday. Jordan performed around 3:45. It was not the cleanest they ever ran the show but over all they performed well. After all was said and done, Jordan won first place in Music Performance in their class, First place Visual performance in their class, Second place Flags in their class, First Place Drum Major, in ALL classes. And More importantly they qualified for the finals competition that evening. The finals were comprised of the 4 band that finished first in their class, plus 4 additional bands with the next highest scores total scores. Jordan played better their second performance. No major mistakes, that I saw at least. At the end of the evening Cary High School came in first, Concord HS came in Second and Jordan came in third place overall.

Sunday Karen Tyler and I played Carcassone, with the expansion pack Karen received for her birthday. It was the first time we played and there were some questions about scoring at the end so we are not absolutely sure of the winner. For that reason, and of course humility, I cannot say who came out on top in that contest.