Wednesday, October 31, 2007

We are the Campeones!

Today (october 31st) is my mom's birthday.

happy birthday mom!

This morning tom and I gave her a call to celebrate the happy day and send our love and best wishes her way.

Along with our birthday greetings, however, came some very surprising news! (no. it's not as surprising as what you are all thinking. hahahah. nice try.)

Thomas was quite excited to tell my mom that he had recently been mentioned in the sports section of a Salvadoran News Paper
no joke!
Thomas is practically a Salvadoran sports legend!

ok ok
so i am exaggerating- but only slightly.


Since we arrived tom and David have been playing badminton almost every night at a local badminton club.
The first night thomas came home exhausted, soaked with sweat, and unable to even lift his fork to eat dinner because he was so tired and his muscles ached so badly.
As time went by he got better in shape and was less sore.
After only a few nights of playing he decided to sign up for the Salvadoran National Badminton Tournament!

A week or so later the tournament began.


what can i say
Tom is a natural (and that is not just a girlfriend perspective)
He did GREAT
Since he is so quick on his feet and has long legs and arms he had great speed, nice reach, and quick thinking.

Tom was placed in the 4th division because he had only been playing for a short time.
He won every game he played (I will leave it up to you to ask about the age of most of his opponents. I am not sure i'm at liberty to tell....)
lets just say that in the second division a ten year old beat plenty of really good adult players to come in second place.
(there are the few amazing child prodigy badminton players........one 15 year old girl had won third place at the pan american games)

and while the finals were close he emerged victorious!



Not only did he get to take away bragging rights but ALSO a sweet trophy!
I am sure this will find a home on the mantel for years and years to come : )






David was also victorious and took first place in his division as well (which was one above thomas.......and thomas would like to mention that of the top two players in this division thomas, was victorious against them the majority of times that he has played them!)


As you can see they were both quite excited by the trophies.
And Suzannah's been very kind about making room in the bed for david's trophy to go between them.
hahah
kidding......????


vive el badminton!

1 comment:

Lisa said...

OH MY GOSH!!! Tom, I think you are the only person in the entire world that I can see actually doing that. Great Job!! Who knew that Dickau would become a household name in El Salvadore! Grandma and Grandpa will be so proud.

PS - I hope you didn't beat a whole bunch of 5th graders to win.