Everybody won, because we had fun!

So 'go-cart' Saturday finally arrived after a lot of trash talk between the "AA" Team made up of Pres Nielson, Brat Wencel and Elder Richards and the PA's/Office assistants who went by the title of "Man Up", (real original! But on the back of their shirts you will notice their hand scribed challenge to us......"Not Today!" The Advanced Age (AA) team went in with high expectations due to TIG (time in grade) and experience against the boys who had some 'track' time and lot's of bravado. In the end as all of you might guess, we the seniors took it to them with all we had......................and lost! In fact, the best we could get was a 3rd place, (Bronze) medal by Wencel, although he said that because I had blocked him, by some kind of driving error, (most likely, going too slow) he could have gotten into 2nd place easy. So, for our excuses we are using the fact that Pres Stan and I hadn't been on the race way for 20 years, I had a cough/cold and my watery eyes could barely see the track turns, we had slower cars, it was cold, even in our 'Just Do It' t-shirts, and finally that the boys cheated. Most of this isn't with much truth, (except the cold/cough) but it's our story and we are sticking with it. Anyway, with the first ever Poland Mission Go-Cart Grand Prix now behind us and a fine Polish plastic trophy with the winners, (Elder Tribe, 1st, Elder Garrett, 2nd and Elder Wencel) name to be 'engraved' on it, soon will be sitting on the credenza in the President's office. In the meantime we will be thinking in terms of the next big event before we leave the country. Personally, I will be doing some serious training runs on the track with possibly as many as 40-50 visits in order to get my best lap time down by 5 seconds, which this year would have been good enough for 7th, (out of 8) places. We did, in fact have a blast and were supported by the camera cheerleaders, Jean and Sister Judy Nielson until they saw we were a hopeless lot where they quickly changed their allegience to the 'other side' and both our cheering section and the quality of the pictures, (of us) took a turn south. The award ceremoney took place afterwards at a Del Grasio's pizza where 7 extra large pies and one salad fed the all of us. Individual medals and a trophy was presented, even to a young single adult of ours, Dominic who showed up without notice and joined the losing team. All went away feeling it was one good 'P'-day.

I may have done better on this Harley which was on display.

The office Elders, Darowski & Taylor who arrived a little late and were getting anxious to hit the track.