It's Official!!

Cory's official invitation to join Team BC at the Special Olympics National Summer Games in London, Ontario next July arrived today! He will join his 3 bowling teammates and coach, with a few other athletes from other sports as Delta's first ever athletes chosen to represent British Columbia at a Special Olympics National Games.

The letter arrived while Cory was away for the day, so we decided we would pick him up and go out for dinner at a local restaurant. We previously had arranged for a server to place the envelope containing Cory's invitation inside a menu that would then be given to Cory. Here's what happened (and you'll see that Cory makes sure an envelope is completely open before removing its contents - the anticipation was killing us!!):

It's a long video, so here's the first part:

Part Two, with a brief replay of "the moment":

And Part 3:

So Cory will now have to train 3 times per week and submit his training records to his Provincial bowling coach. But that won't be a problem. He has signed up in a new bowling league every Monday beginning September 14, then wil be bowling with Special Olympics every Sunday beginning October 18. January to May, he'll be skiing up to 3 times a week (except maybe during the Olympic Games in February), and he does weight training every Friday beginning in mid-October. Throw in some biking and some Wii, and he's a pretty active athlete. And a very happy one right now too.

Still grinning an hour later:

This will work very well with Cory's ski schedule since he has only one important race this coming season, the Special Olympics Regional Qualifier scheduled for February. He successfully qualified in this event 3 years ago so it shouldn't be too difficult for him to qualify again. So concentrating a bit more on bowling to prepare for the National Games will not likely affect his ski racing development.

That's it for now, look out London, here comes Cory!!