SBT State Basketball

So I’m in Anchorage right now working with 10 students from the Bering Strait School District, a few from Anchorage School District, and a few from Mediak to broadcast the 1A/2A state basketball tournament. The kids have been doing a great job the last few days. We started out in two separate buildings broadcasting live from both. Half of the group setting up shop in Service High-school and the other half over at University of Alaska Anchorage. It was a little hectic being at separate sites. Patty Vink one of the teachers that came along to help spent most of the day driving kids from the locations around town to get some food in their bellies and some shopping under their belt.

After the first day we packed up all our gear and moved into the Sulivan arena. Randy and I came over at about 11:30 Tuesday evening to get things set up. We left the Sulivan around 1:30 in the morning. Not much sleep that night. The next morning we were over there at 6:45 the next morning getting the rest of the equipment in place. We didn’t really want to leave our cameras and computers out while we were gone. Broadcasting has been going pretty well. The kids have been working really long hours and have had great attitudes for the most part.

The tournament went well.  It was nice to get finished up Thursday night.  The kids helped pack up all our gear.  We got some sleep and the next morning went out to IHOP for breakfast before hopping on flights.

I spent this weekend getting caught up on sleep.  I was really wiped out.  I slept in till 10:30 Saturday morning, and then took a couple hour nap in the afternoon, and then went to bed around 11:00 that night.  No nap today, but looking forward to another nights sleep.

Today Erin and I booked tickets to Ireland.  We are taking off right after school gets out for me.  We are really excited.  Starting to look at things we can do and places to stay.  We’ll keep you updated on what plans we get figured out for the trip.