Ultimate weekend!

Mark made it to Ultimate Masters Nationals on the Austin TX team Tejas, and they were played in Denver (well, Commerce City) this weekend. We went to spectate on Saturday. Mark played in two of the three games, and they won those two games! Looking at the final scores, Tejas seems to have placed exactly as they should have, beating for a second time all the teams they encountered at Regionals. Whoop!

The first game, versus Slow Country Boil:

Fleet like a gazelle.

Oscar Interlude

Oscar is still enjoying this bug-like Mardi Gras throw. It has so many legs to suck on!

Last game, versus Borderline (a team from the Northeast, with Canadian members).

Mark made a scoring pass in this game, whoop! 

It was great to get to see him and to show off Oscar. The weather was just perfect - not too hot, not too cloudy. The rain held off until after the last game was over and we were on our way to dinner. We got to sit on a hill overlooking the field, under the one tree with any significant shade, for the whole day. Eric had planned on going back up to Fort Collins around five to tutor, but his student called and asked to just do more on Sunday. So we got to change our plans and stay for the whole day! It was nice to be able to just change plans like that, and really nice to sit outside all day long.

The next day, though, we were beat! I can't imagine how the players felt, since they weren't just sitting in the grass all day, and they're all from sea level. Oscar did a lot of good sleeping on Sunday.

Last Thursday we went to Pat's house for a lab dinner (which is almost the weekend, so I include it here). Armeda sent me this photo she took.

Sleepy Oscar!