Thursday, November 24, 2011

Friday, Nov. 25th Semi-final day

Hello,

It was an exciting day of semi-final action.  Rachel Rowe (age 22) of England defeated Rosie Graham of Australia 3 games to 0.  Then Jenny Clarke (age 40) of New Zealand defeated Marwa Moustafa Youssef of Egypt 3 games to 1.

Tomorrow is the last day of the tournament with the Plate and Consolation Finals, 3rd and 4th place playoff, and the Final.  Then everything will come to a close at the Croquet Dinner Banquet.

In between matches, one of the members of the club struck up a conversation with me and my new friend, Jola from Scotland.  Turns out, he is a terrific lawn bowler so he gave us a lesson in "bowls."  I always love to learn a new sport!
Me with coach, Norm.

Sunday morning I head back up to Auckland and Monday night fly back to the US.  I've opted to take a short 35 minute flight from Tauranga to Auckland rather than a 3 1/2 hour bus ride.  The views should be nice too.

Bye for now.

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