Howdy, 'tis Jim. I just talked to Doni again; Unfortunately, Yamato didn't make it into the finals. Doni suspects that the judges may have ganged up on Yamato a bit, and also the head of the color guard hurt (sprained? broke?) her ankle, and so there was a major gap in the color guard formation.
They watched the DCI Division 1 finals last night, and Doni said that they were really great. Division 1 consists of the largest bands. There was also an "aging out" performance by the group of people who will turn 21 in the next year; Doni said they were all amazing players, but the selected song was dumb.
Doni's body continues to adapt to her schedule; now just 2 fingers on one hand are numb at times; her back is really stiff, though, so she plans on going to her chiropracter as soon as she can after she gets home.
Paige is still doing great, and wants to move up to Division 1, with her ultimate goal the Blue Devils. So she'd be in a different corps next year; I hope we can somehow afford it; she has six years until she "ages out".
I'm really looking forward to seeing them both again; Monday Lindsay, Rory, Ben, Me and maybe Mary or Kyle will drive to LAX to pick them up at their scheduled time of 5:02. We'll see if there are delays etc then, of course.
Dede just got here; tomorrow early morning she and Stan are flying to San Antonio, TX for a week. That'll be good for him, he'll get to see his sister Ruth again while she's still around, and I'll be glad to get a break. Stan's been mostly fine; I think he's really been trying to be good to me during Doni's absence, which I'm grateful for.
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