Mr. coat of Indy.

 Trip started very badly .. delays.. flight cancellation. anger..

I knew the first few days are not going to be easy as I was on rotation at work. well.. it was harder than I thought .. maybe because I did want to see  the competition more than I wanted to work.

Reed and Laura helped a lot .. they are much fun and always ready to do whatever it takes to make it easier on everybody. 

I am talking about Indianapolis violin competition:  www.violin.org. 

It started getting better and better .. ended up being great time.

For some reason everybody in the administration liked talking to me.. might be Midwest thing. 

they called me Mr. Coat.. 

The photographer took a closeup of me (nobody else) for the web gallery of the competition.

Ohhh.. Mr. Helmi .. I turned and saw Amy Yoshida .. didn't expect her to be with Minami , now 24 year old, but she was.

Ohh.. you son of a gun .. and here was Arkady Peck.. 

the Level was very high .. exceptional .. Minami did very well .. she got 3rd.

Soobin Lee was 5th.. got to have photo with her .. a request by Iman .