Our January mainly consisted of hanging out at home and going to FTC events. There was an interleague event where we learned that all three teams made it to State Championships in Renton at the end of January. At the State Championships, we had two teams continue on to Regionals. Regionals were in Oakland towards the end of March. We decided since it happened to coincide with Darrell’s spring break where we usually head down to visit his family in Boonville that we would just make our way down and help haul some stuff.
February was a flurry of activity. Swerve was invited to help volunteer at an FTC event in Victoria, BC. Sharyn was roped into volunteering and dealing with all the paperwork and details to get a group of about 15 students across the border and where they needed to go. Edward had a blast hanging out with all of the teenagers.
Late in February Darrell and Edward headed over to Monroe for the annual Model Train show. Sharyn wasn’t feeling great, so she ended up staying home. It looks like they had a blast!
March was our big travel month. Lorna came to visit us just before Spring break, so she hitched a ride with us as we went to California. We drove down through Humboldt and visited our friends from our college days. Then we hit up Boonville and visited with Darrell’s family and dropped Lorna off in Ukiah. After the couple days in Boonville, we headed the rest of the way down to the bay area for the Regional championships. The teams did great and one team made it all the way to World’s at the end of April. It was in St. Louis, so we didn’t end up making that trip out.
