Another Testing

Maddie had another testing tonight, and you can see above that it was a big group testing tonight.  No one was advancing to another degree belt, as tonight they were all just students on their journey onwards and upwards.  Maddie will be getting that third degree belt at the end the year, should things continue as expected.  As for tonight, everything went well!  There was sparring to start out with, and then following that there was the board breaking.  Maddie went with the strategy of screaming real loud to begin with when it came to enthusiastic cries of "Edge" and so forth, and then she got those boards lined up and broke them immediately.  I mean, immediately.  No second tries for her.  At the end of the evening, everyone did their forms too.  Maddie excelled with her form, getting a perfect score.  She had a great night.  I was taking pictures for everyone, but I got a few of Maddie too of course.  I shared all the pictures on the social media site, but here are just a few below of Maddie and her friends tonight.

Broken board after the kick, and the scream!

Elbow of Justice!  Breaking boards and breaking hearts!

Flying kick attack!  That board is about to go down.

Fun with sparring!

The set-up.  The boards are ready to be destroyed.

Chris, her friend, launches a flying kick.

Afterwards, we continued with a tradition after testing:  boba tea.  Maddie and I went over there to get some tea, and some new flavors that we both enjoyed!  It was a great, great night.  She did really well tonight and should be proud.  Of course, the entire team did really well.

We got home, and she got to work on her math homework, as Mom and I watched a movie, "Welcome to Mooseport," which wasn't too bad.  It surfaced recently as a suggested movie and not long later Gene Hackman passed away, so we thought we'd check it out.  There are a few other movies I loved seeing him in, and we might have to revisit those some time soon.  

Anyway, today was a quiet day.  Mom had a visit with the neurologist, and that was just a discussion of past tests, and possibly another test or two.  Nothing showed anything that was troublesome, and that's great news of course.  Afterwards, we dropped by another major store chain that's closing down, Joann's, which Mom always drops by this time of year, particularly for costuming for Easter's big production.

Tonight we finished our book before bed, "Lords and Ladies," and we started the next one, "Maskerade," just rolling right along in the Discworld!  It's been good reading!  We said our prayers tonight afterwards, and then we got the Plush Entourage all tugged in.  Time to get some sleep!