Triumph and turkey...

This past weekend I played in my first tournament since arriving to the UK with MK Ultimate. Located in LOVELY (and I say that with the upmost sarcasm) Luton, 19 teams came together for indoor Regionals. 'You make REGIONALS!?' you might be asking yourself, and my answer is 'haha of course not!' There were two brackets: Upper and lower (those who had a chance at going to Nationals and those who didn't stand a chance in hell--aka the Swiss Bracket). Regardless of this separation, we managed to take first place in the lower

                       (MK Ultimate)

bracket (aka 13th place). Lucky for us only three teams were awarded prizes this past weekend; 1st, 13th and spirit award (which, for your information, was like reading off bloody objectives of a lesson plan. For example 'Team understood the rules of the game or were open and willing to learn aspects of the game they were not familiar with. Rate 0 being poor, 1 being normal, 2 being exceptional'--o_O). Our prize was suppose to be The Plate, but being we were in the Swiss Bracket, we were awarded with copious amounts of Swiss Chocolate (Toblerone to be exact--oh sweet sweet victory :-D ).   

               

(MK Ultimate in all of our Chocolate glory!)

This weekend I'm 'making' my first Thanksgiving dinner! 'Making' because I'm having each person bring one item on my list of food, so technically I'm not cooking everything; just the main bits of the meal. I'm slightly nervous about how this is all going to fall together--it really could be a complete and utter disaster, or it could be heaps of fun (I'm really aiming for the latter of the two...). Jason will be there, which will be nice as my entire department will be there as well and I can finally start acting normal with him whilst they're all around (for the past three months, and understandably so, I've been 'sneaking around' the department, so to say, with how I act with him.). I have about 17 people coming (department and housemates included), which leaves much room for something to wrong--fingers crossed it all works out fine...