Arizona Trip Day 3

Saturday was exciting because Ryan was going for 3rd or 4th place in the individual part of the tournament and Holden was going for 1st or 2nd. It started out great and they both won their matches in the morning. Later Ryan was wrestling a kid from Blue Ridge that was giving him a hard time. This kid had Ryan on his back and then Ryan got a switch and put him on his back and was  pinning him  and everyone was going nuts! He was squeezing this kid as hard as he could and there was almost a minute left. We were all sure it was over. Then the stupid ref stopped the match because Ryan's nose started to bleed just a little bit so h e wasn't able to pin the kid. We all wanted to kill that ref because that was the dumbest and most inconsiderate call in the history of the sport and now Ryan could not go on to the finals. We were all very angry. Holden ended up getting 2nd place.

That night we all wanted to go night tubing, but there were no sleds or tubes. The next couple of hours was spent looking for tubes and making phone calls to see who in town had extras. Finally, we got everything together, gassed up the cars, filled up the tires with air, and we were off. It was a full moon so it was a good night to go. It was not windy, but it was very cold and I guess Whitney does not have a drop of testosterone in her whole body so she was freezing the whole time. Conrad stayed behind to play with Grandma and the boys watching the Cardinals game. Cord and I were going off these super steep hills and by some stroke of luck neither one of us got hurt. Holden, Tanner, and Ryan were all going down in a chain and hitting all the jumps they could on the way down. Katie and I would go down together and try to miss all of the jumps we could because the ground was pure ice! You could always see David rolling after a crash or flying through the air about to land on his head He was the craziest. At the end, Saul and Kevin came to get Tanner, Holden, and Landin. Kevin just sat and watched, but Saul was going down these crazy big jumps! After each one we could see him hit the ground and then he just laid there like he was dead for a minute. Then he would get up and do it again!! It was pretty funny. We were about to leave until I realized that I lost my keys in the snow. I thought they were gone forever, but David with his super-night-vision found them in just a few minutes! -Ransom