The phone rang at 6:45 this morning. It was Kate calling Dan and asking about his tournament. You cannot imagine how much this does for Dan’s spirits, having his kids call and ask how it’s going.

Dan was out in the camera boat with the fishermen today, and when they returned we went over to Wal-Mart to watch the Top Ten weigh-in. In the end realized that only nine pros had weighed in. One of the Top Ten, Joel Baker, got disqualified just minutes before he was to weigh his fish. Apparently, he had been wearing an illegal logo all day, in front of the TV camera, which is a violation of the FLW rules. You are only allowed to wear logos of the official sponsors of the FLW, and Joel had on a college logo hat. I felt extremely bad for him. You could tell that he did not do it intentionally, it was just a baseball hat. But, I also see why they had to disqualify him – if they are not consistent in enforcing all the rules, all the time, then there would be even more problems down the road.

By the time we got home it was 8:00, we were both edgy and tired and went to bed around 9:30, but we both had a great deal of trouble sleeping. We think it is the disappointment from the tournament setting in, and we are just trying to let it pass by.