Ok, ladies and gentlemen, I am shamed by my eleven year old son. Let me explain. Tristan won his middle school geography bee as a rookie fifth grader! He was a fifth grade winner a few weeks back and went up against one girl from fifth grade and two kids from sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, respectively in an all-school competition. After he won he saw one of the girls who lost and said, "You did a great job too, Cindy! You had way hard questions!" So I suppose I should follow his example instead of trash talking so much on facebook scrabble.

By the way, the championship round came down to a "sudden death" question between Tristan and another boy. the final question was, "What Balkan European country exports the most cotton?" I said Turkey, which technically isn't in Europe, maybe, I'm not sure. Skylar said the question was stupid because Egypt is known for cotton. Tristan said Greece. The other boy said Italy. Tristan was right. I asked him later how he knew the right answer was Greece, and he said, "Well, I wasn't sure, but they always talk about cotton in the Greek myths, so I went with Greece." Yay for reading!

A few pics of Tristan with his medal, followed by one of the way tense championship round...