Tonight was HUGE!

My step daughter won her school’s geography bee!  Congratulations!!!

I swear I am so proud of and happy for her that I could freakin’ explode!  She’s only in sixth grade and was competing against seventh and eighth graders and she totally freakin’ WON!

10 kids made the finals, one showed up 20 minutes late.  What was up with that?  It was double elimination, but two kids were required to make it to the championship round, and some one had to clearly finish third.  When the pool was down to five, one kid got the question right and the other four got it wrong, including my step daughter.  She looked crushed when she missed the question, but then she realized that the four kids who were eliminated were getting a new life!  Those four kids had to keep going until some one clearly made the championship round, where they would face the one kid who got the question right.  So they went into sudden death with four kids.  And on it went.  They asked a ton of questions before some one took a shot in the dark with an answer of Australia (I was 100% sure the answer was South Africa, but that’s why she’s the champ and I am the chump) and got it correct!  My step daughter!!!  She advanced to the finals of the finals.

The championship round was three questions.  Whoever got the most correct answers would win.  Wouldn’t you know it?  They tied!  Back to sudden death.  We were getting close to the point where the judges were going to run out of questions before an extremely confident answer of Istanbul was given and a champion of the school was crowned.  My step daughter!!!

The sixth grader triumphed over the older kids to take the victory!  Now later in the school year she gets to go to the States.  If she wins there, the Nationals are in Washington, DC!

I am so proud I am going to burst!  She did an amazing job!  CONGRATULATIONS!!!  WOOOOHOOOO!!!!