Odyssey Competition

I really have a ton of pictures from today but many of them have other kids in them, and I can't post them. So here are just a few...

Today was an awesome ending to all our hard work these past few months in Odyssey. We headed up to a Middle school to compete in the annual Odyssey competition. Nick's groups did a skit about superstitions and my team did a skit on Heracles. The practiced for months writing the script, making the scenery, and making their own props and costumes. There were many problems they had to solve and restrictions that went along with the problems. My team did a great job even after a few problems throughout the day, lets just say we were hot gluing some scenery back together at the very last minute. My team placed third in our division, out of ten teams, of course in our group they only ended up taking the first two groups to states and we were the third. The kids ended up walking away with a bronze medal. Nick's groups had a few more problems then we did and unfortunately went over the time allowed for the script. They ended up getting huge point penalties for the time and did not place. The did however end up winning for their cool script title. All in all, we had a lot of fun. Nick loves that I coach Odyssey because it is something we can do together. Of course I run myself ragged and I stress way more than I should but secretly I love the time I can spend with these creative kids.

Let's hope next year we have less problems and the kids can make it to states.