JV Tourney #1

Cameron played in his first JV tournament today.  It was held at Jimtown and although Cameron did not win a match, he did feel very good about his performance.  He was slotted at number two singles against Northwood and Jimtown to start.  Both of their players were older than Cameron and were extremely consistent.  Cameron learned a lot during the matches and came away with some ideas of what to work on in the future.  His last match was his favorite as he got to play with Aaron at number one doubles against Concord.  They led for awhile, but ended up losing 8-6 after several close games.  All in all it was a good experience for Cameron's first high school tournament.

As soon as Cam finished playing we left for Bloomington.  The match got out a little later than we expected, but traffic was light, so we were still able to make it to Brett's and unload the Pilot before he got out of mass at 5:30.  Our first stop of the night was Pizza Xpress as we knew it would be late before we would eat dinner.  We then headed to Garlic Fest where Meg and Nick met us there.  They had stayed at Brett's last night and enjoyed breakfast with him at Village Deli this morning.  Today they mostly walked around campus before they caught up with us.

Garlic Fest was the same as last year with live music, a beer garden, art tents and garlic booths.  Doug and Parce stayed for several hours while the rest of us caught a little bit of the action and then walked up and down Kirkwood.  I found a couple of IU football items for our front porch, while Meg bought a new IU scrunchie.  Cam looked for something for Bailee, but didn't buy anything.  Cal did not join us.  He had gone to the IU vs Ball State game at Lucas Oil and was too tired to do much else.  We were at the game the last time they played in Indy in 2011.  IU lost that game, but thankfully, that was not the case today.  Since we couldn't attend the game, Cam and Doug had listened to it on the radio on the way down and were pleased that IU was officially 1-0.

Tonight we all went to Mother Bears for pizza. It was a long wait, but no one seemed to mind as there was a lot to talk about.  Once dinner was over, we went back to Brett's to watch The Banana Splits Movie.  Brett had been anxious to see it ever since he had heard about the movie months ago.  It was not everyday that a 1970s children's show became a horror movie.  Death by lollipop and banana car weren't the usual plots for a scary movie, but it did make for several humorous scenes in a show that we could all agree was as bad as we expected.