Me and the geek boys

We all got promoted to orange belt last night. Well, six of us went from gold to orange and four others from our beginner class went white to gold. There were ten other promotions among all the adult belt ranks, which they said was the biggest group they've ever had at that location. So those of us in orange will now be in the intermediate class, which is HUGE - the advanced and black belt classes meet at the same time, so there are about 40 people kickin' booty on the mat at the same time - and a lot tougher than beginners.

But before that, the kids' promotions happened - my little, bitty, baby five-year-old DS2 got his junior orange belt. DS1 (7 1/2) will get his in five weeks because he started a five-week cycle after DS2 and I did. The area-wide demo team for the chain of schools came and went all Jackie Chan. The quiet, shy teenage guy who sometimes teaches the kids' classes (and has taught ours a couple of times) got the sword out and impressed the poop out of the little kids with a lot of kii-yas and slashing and jabbing and doing flips and such. Heck, he impressed me. Eeeeeeeek!