We arrived at our hotel a little bit after noon. Mommy left to her conference right away. In fact, during each day, Abe, his little brother David and I would stay in the hotel most of the time: spending hours playing in the pools and hours watching the World Cup on the TV. As usual, [...]
Yes, the State Scholastic K-8 Chess Championships was last weekend. The day before, last Friday, Abe said, “I don’t want to go to chess tournament this weekend.” “Why?” I asked. “This Saturday, we have a basketball game with the Pacers—the team we lost two weeks ago.” Abe replied. Pacers won Nuggets two weeks ago. It’s [...]
Last Saturday, Abe and I went to the the Blaze Fundraiser tournament. Abe hadn’t been to chess tournaments for about a month since he loved playing basketball games on Saturdays. The reason that I chose this tournament with assumption that Abe can play the chess tournament and still make his basketball game was: The chess [...]
Everyone likes Saturday. You may choose traveling out of town, going shopping, watching a movie, fixing something on your house, or like me, bringing kids to a chess tournament. Wow, so many choices, you choose whatever you like. Maybe not entirely true. As I mentioned in another post, Abe’s basketball games are on Saturdays. Most [...]
As I mentioned in this post, Abe and his teammates ( of team”Nuggets”) played the Holiday Basketball Tournament from Monday to Wednesday. They played four games within three days and won all of them. The following are the highlights of all the games: Game 1, 12/21/09, “Nuggets” vs “Hornets”, posted in this post. Game 2, [...]
Here is the final game of the tournament, “Nuggets” (in gray) vs “Lakers” (in purple): Congratulations to all players, coaches and parents who cheer for the kids. As coach David said “Wow”. What a team effort! Go “Nuggets”.
The Holiday Basketball tournament is finally here! Abe has been waiting for it since their team started practicing on Saturdays about two months ago, he did not want to miss a single practice. He likes both basketball and chess, due to the time conflicts, he could not play as many chess tournaments as I hoped… [...]
