Giuffre Mixed doubles team tear up the courts

Giuffre Mixed Doubles team tear up the courts

Squash is now over and time to switch to Badminton. Tracie and I stand in awe at the registration table as we see the teams from Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, China, India, New Zealand Britain and Denmark flock around the registration people, jockeying for position. Crap! They are even competing for a time on a court before the play has even begun. We are a little nervous. We have to play a mixed team where the man is from India and the gal is from New Zealand. We lost the match 2 games to 1 and we were proud that we didn’t embarrass ourselves and actually came close to winning. The next team from Tasmania barely beat us in points and our final game was lost in a tie breaker. I couldn’t be more proud of the fact that we were the only husband/wife team at the games and we had a good showing. It is a little surreal to ruminate on the fact that we are traveling the world on a sabbatical year with our family and threw in a World Masters Games which only occurs once every 4 years as a side bar. I am so lucky to have a wife that was willing to “give it a go” after learning to play badminton in a high school gym in Swift Current by an Art teacher who knew the theory and not the game. She joined Ladies league 4 years ago at the Glencoe and here we are at the worlds. Quite remarkable!