Tuesday at Great Wolf Lodge 2019

T and his cousins had a blast at the water park yesterday. So much to do. The slides are so much fun but so is the big water station where the buck drops a lot of water. Check out the pics.

T really had to go...LOL! 

Great Wolf Lodge Dance Party 2019

Great Wolf Lodge Family Vacation 2019

Family Vacation has begun. The kids spent time doing Magi Quest upon arrival. We just had an early dinner. Doing some shopping for snacks, breakfast, and lunch while at GWL in a little while. T is doing some training with his team tonight since we are in the area. They get to play more of the Quest tonight😁 when we get back. Oh happy days. 

Bowling Yesterday

Went bowling with the family and used one of our blast certificates that we won last year but haven’t had time to use. We still have yet another certificate to use at a later time...LOL!  We had fun though. 

T and Grand Master Wu (7/25/2019)

T got to spend some time learning from Grand Master Chi Lin Wu today. She loved his forms. She said his kicks were great. Grand Master Wu has won Gold Medals all over the world for her poomsae including 3 Gold Medals at the World Championships. She is a National Coach for Chinese Taipei and an International Referee. T got to get a picture with her tonight before we headed back home. What a great opportunity to spend time with someone who is great at poomsae and T will be doing his pretest for his poomsae next week. Such a timely session he got to have with her today. 

What I really loved about her is she reminded me so much of Grand Master Cann. It seemed that for a moment we had her back with us in some small way because GMaster Wu and GMaster Cann are so much alike. Their personalities are extremely similar. Trying to communicate with her has been a challenge because she speaks very little English but rest assured that she found ways to communicate that the kids and us adults could understand.  If GMaster Cann were still with us communicating with her would be a non issue because we’d have a translater. It’s good to know, though, that we can move forward in the midst of the loss we’ve had to deal with since February. We feel GMaster Cann’s loss deeply everyday. She had so much wisdom beyond her years. We wish we could have bottled up all she knew so we’d have it to pull from when we need it. Now we are having to pull her wisdom from conversations we had with her. Our memories are our guides now as we face a future very different from what we thought it’d be last year this time. God is good though. He’s knows our beginning from our end and He knew what He was doing by giving us only a short while to know such an awesome woman. I’m glad we got a glimpse today of her in spending time with GMaster Wu.  I love T getting such great opportunities like he had today. 

Carowinds with the Team

T had a blast today. Got ride his first big person roller coaster ride today. He’s so happy to be y’all enough to ride the big rides now. It’s like a right of passage moment for him. He can’t wait for his dad to be able to come and do these rides with him at some point. If his dad would have been here that would’ve made his day perfect. I rode the Fury ride with T and it was awesome!   I did it with a full belly and didn’t barf too...LOL! Here are a few pics. 

Having Fun at TaeKwonDo Class Tonight! (7/22/2019)

T had a good time practicing his Poomsae with Master Amy earlier tonight for his first pre-test coming up on August 2nd. 

Practicing Creative Forms Tonight

T got a chance to practice his creative form for the pre-test on August 2nd tonight at the Dojang where he’ll be performing it. What he does at the end, on actual pre-test day, he’ll do his final flip without touching the floor. Fun times. 

Black Belt Testing Cycle Class Tonight

I got to play with my camera some more tonight and take some pics of T while he was practicing his forms. The class is preparing for their first pre-test on August 2nd. T’s getting more and more sharp as he practices his forms. Almost wish he was able to do AAU Jr Olympics with as sharp as he’s getting but he won’t be able to do that tournament. Next year maybe he can depending on if it will be close by. Anyhow, here are some pics that I was able to get tonight. 

BBW Class 7/17/2019

Swimming with the Family at the Y

We went swimming with the family today at the Y. Only person missing was Tristan. He was at a camp. T and Iris had a blast though. Pool water was a little on the warm side but of course it was like over 90 degrees outside too...LOL!  At least it was wet.