Belt Testing, Football and HOG

What a weekend it was for us. Friday night was our color belt promotion test. We had nine of our students test and two were grandchildren. Three of Gary's grandkids are taking lessons from us and two tested, Brandon and Alexus. Brandon is Donnie's son and Alexus is Carl's daughter. Friday was also Alexus's birthday, she turned 10. Our students have been working hard and they all got their new belts. We managed to get a group photo this time, but I just have to get a copy from one of the moms. Alexus was very happy as this was part of her birthday present from her mom. After the test, Gary and I stayed for the dinner for the black belts. Mrs. Park always cooks a dinner for us and it is all very tasty. I don't eat the kimshe, too spicy for me, but I can eat her other dishes.

Saturday, Gary worked the last two home games of the season. He was the score keeper and clock operator for the games this year. He did all of them, middle school all the way up to varsity. He had two games back to back and then we just had enough time to make it up to Billings again to watch Tristan (Donnie's son) play in his football game. He got involved in the Mighty Mite Football League that the Billings Outlaws sponsor for little kids. His mothers new boyfriend is an announcer for the Outlaws. It is a great program to get kids involved in football. Unfortunately Tristan's team lost, but he sure enjoyed his season and can't wait for next year. This is why I want to upgrade my camera. Gary's grandkids are keeping us pretty busy. Now the youngest one is in dance. The Outlaws organization was selling some of their gear for a bargain price. We bought us a fleece jacket for $8 each. I think normal price was $25 for them.

Sunday was our HOG chapter meeting in Billings. Our original plan was to ride the bike up to the meeting. In April Gary got in on the mileage contest and it ended yesterday. Woke up and it was pretty cloudy but not too bad. We started to leave the house at 11:30 yesterday morning and that was when it decided to rain. It was pouring rain. We started to head out, but decided that riding in the rain all the way to Billings for a meeting just wasn't worth it. We wrote our ending mileage down and they will just have to take our word for it.

By the time we got to Billings, it was clear and the sun was shining. It had rained all the way to Billings until we got to the the top of the Pryor hill. Figures. Anyway the weather didn't cooperate so for the mileage it went on the honor system. Gary didn't get enough miles to be one of the winners. The winners are two guys who put on over 20,000 miles. This year we put on over 9,000 miles, which it pretty good for us. We are putting on 3,000 miles more than the season before.

The October meeting is kind of a sad meeting because we know that riding season is over. There may be a few days here and there that we will be able to get out in, but I'm afraid it's going to be a long winter. This is also the meeting were new officers are nominated and I got nominated to be secretary. I tried to get out of it because I can't make the officer's meetings on Tuesdays because I have class. Gary was quick to pipe up that he will teach my class for me, because it's only once a month. How can you argue with that logic, so I said I would be the secretary. The election is in November, but there is only one candidate for each position, so I will be the HOG secretary for the next two years. I will take office in December. They did tell me that they know I have to come from Hardin for the meetings and if the roads are bad I don't have to worry about it. All I have to do is keep minutes for the two meetings each month and make sure that the minutes get sent to the editor for the monthly newsletter.

That pretty much sums up our weekend. I did post Tristan's football pictures on picasa. Not the best but they will work for me. My little camera just doesn't have the range.