I had perfect conditions for that. The lake was calm.

It's big, because my aspirations are to finish in the top five in points. If you do that, you get automatic entry into the Elite 100. That is what I really want to do because it is the golden nugget.

We had storms come through and we had 25 mile per hour winds. I went down to the lower lake and with that wind and the chop on the water, I couldn't see anything.

Conditions in Tuscany are perfect.

We need a little payback for Storm Lake last year. They kind of ruined our season and we haven't forgotten that. We want to show people we can play well against them. They're a very good team, a very physical team. They like to throw a lot, so it's going to give us a different set of problems. We want to rise to the occasion and come back with a victory in week two (of district play).

Music burst through him, perfect notes he hear rarely. Fire and ice, wind and calm, sky and earth, water and rock all fused together. Joley seemed as wild and turbulent s the sea, yet beneath her fiery passion, at the very core of her, she was as forceful and strong and as constant as the deepest ocean currents. Ilya seemed as calm as a windless sea, yet beneath the surface smoldered a volcano of such explosive magnitude, his power could easily sweep everything from his path. Together they completed each other, his melody and hers merging together into a single, perfect harmony.