World of Champions Karate Tournament

Nik had his first karate tournament today. We spent the night yesterday in a hotel. This was a first for Nik too. Nik was so excited yesterday that the kids were a little bad yesterday. But I think it was because they were overly excited. We had a hot tub in our room which was another first for Nik and he loved it. As you can see in the pictures. By the end of the evening Jason and I were exhausted from these kids. I don't think the kids went to bed after 10. We ate at Red Robin for dinner and it was awful. Tournament was great it was cool to watch the older people do their forms and weapons. Since this was our first time it was a little crazy because we did not know what to do. They divided the Tiny Tigers up into groups and they did the white through orange belt first and placed they by their colored belts in these lines. The parents has to step aside so a lot of the kids got nervous because they could not see their parents. Then they divided them up into groups of 7 and that is where they did their form and some did their weapons. Nik was one of the ones to do his weapons which was the numchucks. I think only 3 out of his group did. Nik was a little nervous when he did his form he was the first to go in his group. But he did really good. Then he did his numchucks and this is where he shined, he did great. It amazes me that he remembers how to do this. We do have a video that you can see, but our camera is not digital so I can't post it. Nik was so proud and excited when he got his first 2 trophies ever and I am sure there will be more to come. If seems to want to do this for a long time and is excited to do other tournaments. I am finally starting to feel better. Jason is too but his is a day or so behind me. This is the longest that Jason and I have felt like crap in a long time. This cold probably lasted a week. It just wore us out. We both have not worked out in over a week we just did not have the energy. So hopefully back to normal this week. Have a nice week. Short week for school the start of Easter break is coming.