Friday August 27th 2010

	George Gassaway
Breakfast at the hotel	On the way to Novi Sad......	IMG_0415.JPG	IMG_0416.JPG
Ryan tried to mail his model box home, but the Serbian post office would not ship it. He ended up using DHL ($)	Actually, we did no eat here	yes, photographic proof that I really was on this trip. Rod Shafer and his wife Maria at right.	IMG_0445.JPG
	Friday morning - After breakfast at the hotel, some stayed at or near the hotel to rest and pack. Others went around Irig.  And a few went to Novi-Sad. Ryan Woebkenberg arranged for a van that took some of us there. Those who went on the van were Rysn, his wife Amy, and Katie, as well  as Rod Shafer and his wife Marie, Caleb and Don Boe, Todd Schweim, and myself. The drive was mostly along a narrow winding road that went over the mouintian seen in the bakcground on S3A Parachute photos. In Novi-Sad, the Boes and Todd went off as a group till it was time to meet up later. The rest of us did a bit of the tourist-thing, shopping-thing, and so forth. We also tried to find a Hobby Shop, a fine traditiion of many US Teams, which are often hit or miss adventures. It turned out to be a big miss. No, we were not lost.... we just did not know where we were (but we had a basic GPS "bread crumb trail" to get back if we needed to).   Much later we ran across a semi-hobby shop, that specialized  mostly in low end and a few mid-range electric R/C models and some die-cast models. Rod and Ryan both got a cheapie indoor R/C model. We met back up and took the van back to the hotel.
The "Extreme R/C Toys" shop			The "Extreme R/C Toys" shop
Amy, Ryan, and Katie Woebkenberg			IMG_0457.JPG
IMG_0458.JPG	Getting up from waiting for the van to take us back to the hotel in Irig	IMG_0470.JPG	IMG_0475.JPG
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	Friday night - And then,  finally, the banquet. I will let photos mostly speak for themselves for the banquet (What happens in Irig, stays in Irig....).  I will report on the overall champions, based on the combined results for all the events flown. Champion Junior was Alexey Lutiy of Russia. Champion Senior was Antonio Mazzario Champion Junior Team was from Poland. Champion Senior Team was from Russia. Tomorrow (Saturday), we leave at noon on a bus for Belgrade. Most will stay overnight, then fly home Sunday.  Maybe even go for round two of Hobby Shop searching Saturday afternoon. I will have another report on Saturday.
James Duffy (left) signed a card that the rest of the team also signed to give to a friend of the team.			Senior S8E/P team members, George Gassaway, Ryan Woebkenberg, and Kevin Kuczek
US Junior Team dancing to "The Final Countdown". Later, members of other countries joined in			left to right, Fritz Gnass, Antonio Mazzaracchio, Taras Tataryn, and Kevin Kuczek
The Russian Team manager and his wife	George Gassaway and two members of the Russian team	Mary Roberts	Esther Clark and a flier from another country's Junior Team

	Steve Kristal
American juniors got the whole room dancing	Closing ceremonies	Emma and Katherine at the banquet	Emma traded one of her team hats for a Japanese junior's team jacket
	Something you don't see every day	U.S. tables at the banquet