Concordia Part 1

as many of you know, Jonah and I went to the Concordia tournament last week- in LD. So here follows the best of my recollection.

I'd been wanting to go to an LD tournament all year, or well, at least since the modesto round robin, which was my first LD tourney this year (in Dec.). I've been rather disappointed that my second tournament of the season, first qualifier of the season, would be my last (Can't go 2 biola), so I wanted to make the most of it.

Since it was being held at Concordia university, in Irvine, we would drive down Monday.. The drive, which we have done quite a bit, was a bit more hectic than usual. We left at around 5 am, but still hit the inbound traffic to Oakland. Most likely because of last minute stuff, like Jonah grabbing the laptop at the last minute. Since it was early and dark, it was hard to drive. I wouldn't really know, but that's what I'm told. A car ahead of us abruptly slammed it's brakes and we came inches from it's bumper, while the two cars behind us hit (not much, but still scary)
God was watching...
The rest of the drive was the same monotony. At a gas station we saw a chipmunk, which was rather exciting, you don't see those too much... It was interesting until we found out we were deceived and it was an ordinary squirrel.
We were nearly hit again when we got to Irvine. Construction work was stalling us, and we were rather frustrated with the slow time already. But as we went around a bend (we're on a 2-way street now..) a minivan zoomed around, evidently crashing into us had we not been stalled.
God still there...
Needles to say the drive alone was an adventure.

We got to where we were staying -a beach house my mom's side of the family shares. We walked to the beach and ate dinner. Several jellyfish washed on shore so we didn't swim. Water was really col anyway. Jonah and I did an empire competition. Instead of sand castles you make sand civilizations. You start out with huts, hovels, etc., then show the progression of the city until you have aquaducts, amphitheaters, palaces, seawalls, and eventually other cities connected with roads. We were never challenged by the sea, close as we were to the ocean, so we never needed seawalls. That was disappointing. Constructing perfect sea walls is a difficult task.
And so ended day one.