Chess Tournament

Mr. A was a chaperon for the students at PV in Chess club who attended the state tournament. They left Thursday to Northern Utah and competed at WHS on Friday and Saturday. The students did very well and only one kid at the tournament was caught cheating but it took the board 45 minutes to decide to exclude him from the tournament (duh?!?). The trophies weren't awarded until 5pm Saturday and after the ceremony ended about 6pm, they all headed home. It was snowing terribly. They traveled through a snow storm all the way down to Southern Utah. Mr. A said they stayed in the middle of the storm most of the way. After taking all the chess club kids home Mr. A was knocking on the front door at 4am Sunday morning to go to bed. My van looked like a tornado had hit it both inside and out. Teenagers are very sloppy and so are husbands who hang out with teenagers! The most frustrating aspect of the trip was that all my kids came down with a terrible head cold: coughing, sneezing, stuffy nose, runny nose, watery eyes, fevers, and a whole lot of whining! I was left for 3 days with four sick kids who wanted Mom to know how miserable they were!!! My sister came into town but we weren't able to visit much because of the germs. It was a miserable weekend and no hubby to break up the "fun"! I'm sure Mr. A had lots more fun than I did!