Sorry….. I just can’t resist sometimes;)

Last Saturday, we went to watch Shan compete in a ‘comp’. That was as much information as he gave us so we were surprised to see that it was the Asia Pacific Brazillian Jiu Jitsu (BJJ) championships at the Melbourne Sports and Aquatic centre. He and another guy were nominated from their school. The other guy was in heavy weight and Shan was in the medium (or something!) division.

I took a book to read and Hannah, Trevor and Ben had various things to entertain themselves with in case it was a long and boring day. Trevor took his Chemistry book to study for his exam. He might fail the exam now because we were so enthralled that we didn’t get to read our books!

Typical of Shannon, we didn’t know he was talented at BJJ!!! He has only been doing it for 18 months. We knew so little about the sport that we thought he was losing as he was underneath his opponent for the entire first round. He won all 5 of his rounds (from underneath his opponent!!!) and then ended up in the final.

According to Hannah, he has a special ‘move’ (the ‘triangle maneuver’ ….. or something) which he does with his legs and that is what gave him the winning edge. In the last round Hannah and I were up the front at the mats screaming and cheering away with the others. Originally, I had threatened to go and hit anyone with my handbag who hurt him lol.

He ended up second place in his weight division and was awarded a huge trophy and other goodies. We have a newly found awe of him …… and a little bit of fear as well. Colin has realised that he can’t bluff him anymore.

More pics here

The  last 2 Sundays I have had the great pleasure of taking Dad out to lunch. Firstly for his birthday and today for Fathers day. He is such an awesome person to spend time with and Col and I really enjoy his company.

He hasn’t always been my Dad (long story!) but it has been so long it is all I remember. I have never felt anything other than loved and supported by him. At times, especially in my teens, I am not sure how he did it lol!

His life over the past 13+ years have been tough with Mum gone and he has endured great loss and loneliness.

I just want to say……. thanks heaps for being such a great Dad!

Anyway….. enough mush for now.

I am working tomorrow (Saturday) and then off to Adelaide to present at the Asia Pacific Blackboard conference for the week so I took today off. Yay!!

After 12 months of no riding at all we finally got to ride the Eastlink bike trail today. We rode from Ringwood to Wellington Rd and back and I have to say….. it was awesome. The trail is fantastic and we ‘flew’ along in the sunshine. We were sitting on 35kph for lot of the way. I was pretty pleased with myself for the pace I kept on my orange rocket.

BUT….. I was like a ‘slug’ on the way back. That was when I realised it was all downhill to Wellington Rd (that explained why I ‘flew’ on the way!) and OF COURSE it was uphill on the way back. Aaaagh. Everything is hurting now(

We had the traditional lunch and a bottle of wine out in the sunshine which was not hard to take. You can see how white my legs are in the pic. I think I have some riding to do to take the glare off them. I don’t know how they got in the photo since I took the photo with my mobile myself!

Many thanks to ‘Spiderflex‘……. the bike seat we bought from Canada for Colin. He is so excited to be back in lycra (!). Chicken legs rides again:)