Congratulations ROSSI!!!

WOW! I'm so impressed! A few weeks ago, Rossi won 1st place in his school for the National Geographic Geography Bee! Last night was the DISTRICT competition. So the 15 schools in our district had their 1st place winners from each grade 4-8 show up to this competition!

The fun part of the competition for Rossi was that his best church friend, Ammon (from our ward) also made 1st place for his school! So the boys were competing against each other! (They are standing up in the back row, Ross is standing at the far left, Ammon is just to the right of him!)


Anywhoozle - they go through 7 "quick" rounds to determine the top 10 of the gang - There was a tie for 11th place, Ammon had a tie breaker & won that! He ended up getting 3rd place for the district while Ross was in the final 10, and had to stay later to determine placing!

SOOOO - long story short...the guy to the right of him in THIS picture won 1st place - and he was actually one of Ross' friends from his old school from last year! Rossi won 2nd - while his friend from Church took 3rd! It was such a "friendly" competition - they were high fiving each other all through the questioning - cheering each other on! I love those kinds of competitions!

We took Rossi out for ice cream afterwords - he was a little down that he "only" got 2nd place! DORK! I don't think he realized it was for all the schools in our area until after the ice cream froze his brain!

OH - and he "lost" on the simplest of questions - yes, he got the sasquacheaon (sp?) rim question right?! But he thought the Everglades were in California...I thought the Everglades were in Iceland - like polar ice caps? GLADES - like cold? So yah - he didn't get his geography know-how from his MOTHER!