Today you had your 8th CASL skate competition at Buena Park.  You were feeling tired from our Colorado trip as we had just gotten back early Friday morning.  I could see it in the way you were skating as you were much slower and when you weren't landing tricks at practice you were getting very frustrated.  The end result was not what you wanted 7th place overall out of 14 kids.  If only you'd landed more of your tricks you could have done a lot better.  We were both pretty disappointed and down.  Luckily the disappointment didn't last long as they called your name for best trick for the huge ollie from a bank that was much taller than you.  This was a trick that dad had suggested during warm ups that initially you hesitated.  I'm so glad you conquered your fear. It certainly paid off to challenging yourself.  Congratulations on winning best trick!