Well, we survived the basketball tournament - two wins and two losses. Ralph went to the game Friday afternoon, as Alli and I went to Sacramento for a doctor's appointment, so he got to see one win (close - by one point, and the opposing team had a shot at the buzzer that bounced around on the rim for a while before it fell out.) We had a game at 8:00 Saturday morning, and it was with a "traveling" team - these traveling teams usually practice together year round, and travel over the western states to play - they trounced us. The first few minutes had the score at 16 to 0, then the other coach pulled his good guys, put in the second string, and changed tactics enough that we could score once in a while. AJ got to play for a couple of minutes near the end of the game, and he played pretty well. He had a lot more confidence in himself, and it showed. We finished at 8:50, and had a game at 9:00 at another school! Luckily it was close by, but our guys were wiped from 45 minutes of trouncing. We did manage to win the game, but they didn't play very well. AJ didn't play in that game - the score was too close - I think we won by 4 points. We finished up at 9:50, and the next game was at 11:00 (be back at 10:30 to go over plays). The coach told the guys to go eat something! We went and grabbed some french fires for AJ, even though he hadn't played in that game, he could use a snack. The 11:00 game started well, but we quickly fell 10 points behind, and just couldn't catch up. We were pretty evenly matched, so once we got behind, we stayed behind. One to the next week - practice Monday and Tuesday, game on Wednesday, and a tournament Thursday, Friday and Saturday in Red Bluff!