purdue open and the best D i ever got

went to the purdue open weekend before last (oops didn't post last week)
i was contacted by will asking if i could bring amanda up to the tournament from iu since i was passing that way, so i talked to her and made arrangements and we headed up friday night
we got there and i had some love shack for dinner and hung out in john's room for awhile (he and his roomie were gone) and then headed to help set up for the open
when we finished that we went to BrewCo, and because i was a bad fencer (non-social) when i was at purdue it was my first time there
i tried a beer (still holding out hope that they don't ALL suck) and it was actually pretty ok so i bought a 'growler' of it and their root beer (very good)
saturday i went to the open and fenced epee and didn't do as well as i should have but still not terrible and then got changed over for saber (after helping round up 4 more people so it would be a D1 instead of an E1) and did my pools
i won all my bouts (though my indicator wasn't great) and that was enough to kick me to the number 1 seed (WOOOO!) because the D and other Es in the second pool all had one loss
so i ended up with a bye for the first round (which is frustrating because i'm there to fence and the more fencing the better, but being in first helped keep me happy)
steve took out the E from my pool (who had caused me a little trouble but not too much) and nads (who i fenced with at purdue and while i consistently did better than him then, he has improved and i was kinda worried about facing him) took out the D in the second round, then steve and i fenced and he was good, but he was too much of a foilist, so he would make wonderful parries and then start a long prep action and i'd hit him and get the touch (he could really do a lot of damage in sabre being able to parry like that if he would turn around and immediately riposte) and that was enough to land me in the final bout... against nads...
we spent most of the time flying at each other (like good sabeurs) so there are a couple pics of us in contact right after touches
but after a very hard fought bout i was able to beat him, winning the event and earning a D07
yay!
so then i went and picked up nick (who was moving all his stuff from dayton) and dropped him off at his car and we went to steak and shake and then back to get showers
feeling much refreshed we strolled down to windows (mmmm) for some wonderful martinis, and even though neither joe nor ryann were there renu was and did wonderfully
after that we swung by harry's and then off to bed
sunday i hung out for awhile, went to the griffin grapple for a bit, harassed people, went to nine irish brothers (down on the levee, had fish and chips, pretty tasty...) and then drove back home dropping amanda off on the way (someone has informed me that all these times where i'm driving women around only to deliver them to other men is jsut building up karma for me.... we'll see)