Welcome to Day 12 of the 2020 Summer Games! Sunday we held two events: Archery & Tennis
And our spotlight country of Kazakhstan was guessed correctly only by Peyton.
First, I'll get to dinner. See, Calib has been working late- like until 9:30 or 10 because they're so short handed. But, we just get a vague 'I'm staying late', so we hold out some hope he'll get home in time for events. That meant we pushed all our events until after dinner hoping he'd show up (spoiler alert: he didn't).
But anyway, for Kazakhstan dessert we had Apple Sharlotka (a Russian apple cake) . We love Apple Sharlotka here! It's been remade a few times since the country project.
But our main dinner was Kazakh Beshbarmak ( it is a boiled meat with noodles , although we bought egg noodles instead of making our own), Kazakh Shalgam (Radish salad),
The radish salad is also surprisingly good!
Around 7 we decided to at least do our tennis event without Calib. I put baskets worth varying points in the driveway, basically you used the tennis racket to get a ball in the basket. Most points in five balls was the winner.
But this was deceptively hard.
Only Peyton and Asa came away with points.
Asa gave the gold to Peyton, and I told Hayden he was getting a bronze participation medal. Calib was so far ahead in the medal count, it's not so bad that he's not here. It's giving his brothers a chance to catch up. Asa told me not to be that disappointed Calib is missing a few events this week, because I didn't think I'd get anyone to participate in any events, so this is all bonus anyway!
Next up was Archery (aka darts!) Look, I even have festive darts for the occasion.
We waited for Calib for awhile for this one too, but as it was getting dark we decided to go ahead with archery without him.
Peyton came out on top with this one too.
Though we didn't do the medal ceremony until the next day because of waiting for Calib.
Betting was still on Track and field events.
Women's Shot Put went to China, US, and New Zealand, so Calib was the only one to get paid out.
And Men's Long Jump went to Greece and Cuba, so Hayden got paid out.
A look at the standings..
Calib is still in first, but Peyton is catching up!
When Calib finally got home, it was nearly 10 pm. But, as a thank you, they told him to take as much food as he wanted. He brought back four bowls. Hayden was super excited about it.
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