Past few days

Sunday morning saw Molly set sail and parasailed. She had a blast.

In the afternoon we caught the 2 individual bronze metal matches the Canadians were in. They won both of them. So, out of the 4 bronze medal opportunities we had Canada won 3 of them. Not to shabby.

We had a chance to sit in on a tour of the area on Monday, but the kids (Molz and B-cup) didn't really care and wanted to spend their last full day at the resort...so we did. Swam in the Sea, used the waterpark, played some pool, bowled and ate, were the highlights of the day. Time actually went quite fast.

Neither Spence or I could get a late check-out for our rooms so we were destined for the lobby for the afternoon on Tuesday before we were picked up for the airport. That was pretty boring. Molz says she can tell Spence is ready to get home....he's getting antzy.

Just sitting in Gatwick waiting another 9hrs for my next flight.

Updates

Going back to last night we had an A.P.B.(all points bulletin) out for Spence. I guess B-cup and him went bowling together and B-cup left him about 4:00pm in the lobby/bar. It was about 7hrs later and he was still there chatin' it up with an Aussie(and maybe downing an ale or two). Today he was the talk of the team...word seem to spread quickly.

This a.m. the Cadet male compound team shot for a bronze medal. They gave it a good try but lost to GBR 226-221. The Junior female compound team won bronze over Italy 221-218.

This afternoon we all decided to take a trip to town via public transit. It became very crowded on the bus and hot. Saw more of the town than we bargained for as the driver forgot to tell us when we should get off as we told him the approximate area we wanted to go to. When he stopped the bus and left, so did we, to a taxi. He took us to the old part of town along the shoreline of the Med.
Got lots of nice pics. of the area. The cab ride back to the hotel in a cab for 4 with 5 of us was quite a show. Spence needed a crowbar to pry himself out of the back seat and Kathy was numb from the hip down.




We think there is an organized tour nfor all of us to go on, on the 13th.

Mol and I still want to try a tandem parasailing ride down at the beach before we leave.

Pics have also been updated today.

Results

Final results can be found here. Just cut and paste:
www.archery.org./UserFiles/Document/Results/Results/2008/08_WC_Antalya/IRSUMC.pdf

Molz final result after all is said and done is 52 place

B-cup finished 11th. He is part of the Compound Cadet team that will shoot for Bronze tomorrow.

Hopefully we can get to town for a little sight seeing in the next day or two.

Pictures

More pics. added today

Match Play

Today Mol had a bye in the first round. Her first match was in the second round called the 1/32 round. She had to face the 25th ranked gal from Mexico. Molz lost 96-106. Kathy was very proud of her and the way she shot and handled herself. Mol was glad it was over...I think she was stressed....just relieved it's over, but she still enjoyed herself. Sooooooo proud of her!!!!!!!!!!!

As for B-cup he had a bye in the first two rounds. He shot in the 1/16 round against a lad from Denmark. Chris was down 1 after the first six arrows. We were sure from our vantage point that he also lost on the second six when they flipped their signs and they were tied. So it went to a single arrow shootoff. Again tied. Onto shootoff #2, again tied. Round three is closest one to the centre wins...B-cup shoots a 9 and eveyone figures it's over. The Dane shoots a nine further away from the centre and B-cup wins. In the 1/8 round he faced an Italian and again is down 1 point after the first six arrows. This time though he can't over come the deficit and losses 116-119.

Tomorrow we will head over to support the 3 remaining Canadians and watch the team rounds.

That's all for now

Pictures

Check out :http://picasaweb.google.com/masolc

for all of our photos

A Good day

Molz shot pretty darn good today. She still dropped to 41st overall BUT her overall score of 1248 is a Personal Best. Shooting 3 PB's in one tournament is amazing.....but to do it in a world championships is incredible. One simply cannot describe the pride as a parent.

Tomorrow at 15:30 or 16:30(we're not sure which), local time, will be her first match. She is up against an Italian who ranked 39th. Should be fun. Molz likes the 60M distance.

I'm going to upload some pics of her to this site...check them out.

Buttercup is chugging right along. He had a slight hiccup at the start of 30M but it turned out it didn't cost him much at all and he placed 7th overall. His first match is at 17:45 Thurs.

That's all for now