Parks' Tae Kwon Do Tournament

Last Saturday was the 31st Annual Park's Invitational Tae Kwon Do & Judo Championships.  Hard to believe that he has been hosting this tournament for 31 years and we have been involved with it for the past 20 years.

We had 7 of our students compete and they did well.  Everyone who competed medaled in all their events.  This year we came home with more bronze medals than the other colors but we are very proud of them. One of our students has competed before and he has always struggled with his events coming in 3rd all the time.  This year he got a gold medal in both his events and he even came home with a 1st place trophy from the Powell tournament.  Two of our little girls froze but at least they did it.  I think I spent more time calming mother's nerves.

We had spent the night in Billings due to the black belt test.  We get out of the test late and instead of driving home and getting up early we just spend the night.  Jennifer got sick on Friday and she spent Friday night in the motel sleeping.

She wasn't any better in the morning, in fact she was worse.  At 7:00 am Gary took her home and then back to Billings.  He made it back to the hotel in time to change and then get to the high school where the tournament was behind held. I stayed behind to get ready.

The tournament was fast this year, we were done by 4:30 pm.  It helped that the black belts stayed, usually by the end of the day we are sparse on black belts and can usually run only two rings.  Not this year, we were able to run four rings.

We were meeting our friends for a quick bite to eat before heading home to Hardin.  Since we got done early we had about an hour before meeting them.  That gave us time to buy a new bed.  We won't be able to get it until next weekend.