Woo hoo!

I defeated the Elite Four yesterday, as well as catching Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza, and all the Regi- Pokemon. I'm set to take advantage of that auction whenever I choose...

On a completely separate note, I had forgotten how hard Legendaries are to catch. I think I had to restart the game about 8 times before finally catching Rayquaza, and I would have gone through a total of probably 60 Ultra Balls if I hadn't been shutting off the game every time I accidentally killed it. The others were hard to catch, too, but at the same time, there is an immense satisfaction in catching these impossible-to-catch Pokemon. Mostly because you have to skill to catch it without killing it - getting it down to under 10 HP, putting it to sleep, and just chucking Ultra Balls at it until it's subdued...it takes a fairly long time.

John came back from Chile yesterday. He regaled us with many awesome stories of his travels. It was really great to see him, and it's too bad that I only get to see him these last two weeks that both he and I will be in town. Ah, well. We all had dinner and then played Mario Party, which I'm sure is something that's going to happen fairly often in the next few weeks.

I haven't managed to see who won the Main Event of the World Series of Poker yet, so nobody tell me!