First Kendo Victory!

Well, that was a good (not great, but good) weekend. Saturday was mostly great... woke up early to get to the tournament on time, won my first Individual's match...

Wait, wait... let's try that again:
*Won my FIRST INDIVIDUAL'S MATCH!!*

Much better. I even started out from behind... he got a point on me first (a "do" hit... sloppy, but whatever), and then I got 2 "men" points on him in a row! GO ME!

Lost my second match against the guy that ended up winning the court (a guy from BC... as Mori-sensei said, if he was going to fly in from BC, his sensei musta been pretty sure he'd do well!), and then lost my Team Match to an ugly, ugly kote point (I still can't believe they gave it to him... but whatever).

After that I went to Union to see Andy off to Montreal (she's coming back tonight)... fell in love with Toronto again (man I love walking through that city!), and then hopped on a subway to meet my mother. Spent the night in Georgetown.

The Sunday spent with my parents was unremarkable except my father said he might try to get me a $100,000/yr raise in order to keep me at the company. I'll believe it when I see it (and it still might not be enough to get me to stay).