Day 204

We got to the club about 8:30 even though Ellen didn't shoot until 11:30.  It was in the 60's, and so foggy that you couldn't see the 5-stand targets.  I was also doing the misty rain thing that Seattle is famous for.  I went and got a belt from Lonesome Charlie.  We did a little more walking around and met up with Mac.  We talked to him for quite awhile, and then Jason joined us and we talked some more.   Mac is planning to come to the Western.

We had to cut the conversation short because we wanted to get in some practice.  After practice we went to the prelim.  Ellen lied to me about the time, so we were there 40 minutes early.  At least it had stopped raining.  It was really humid though and pretty uncomfortable.  The course was pretty difficult, but we expected that.  One problem was station 1.  It was a report pair with two long incomers.  The staion was backed up when we got there.  Then just after we got there one of the machines broke.  After a wait they sent us ahead.

The whole thing delayed the round so much that I had to go off to the 28 ga without Ellen.  She didn't get over there until I had shot 4 stations.  She was lucky to get a ride, because the two courses were at opposite ends of the property.

The 28 ga course was pretty hard.  In Salem they would have bitched about it as a tournament course.  I sucked, but then I didn't expect to do well.  I just wanted to shoot that gun.

I was really tired by the end of the course because of all the walking and standing that we'd done.  So I stopped by the clubhouse for a beer.  We were going to eat the lunches that we didn't have a chance to eat.  However, they had a free buffet, free beer, and a free bar set up.  We ate that stuff instead.  Even Lucy got a few bites of buffet.  I had a beer and most of a rum and coke.  I didn't drink it all because I wanted to make it home in one piece.