16 Boxes of Trophies

As I type this, sixteen boxes of trophies are being taken off the UPS truck and stored in our garage.

 Bodybuilder Hubby will have the privilege of sorting and assembling the trophies this weekend.

Ordering the trophies involves a certain amount of gambling.  Trophies are expensive, so we don’t want to end up with a bunch that we don’t need, especially the parts that are engraved with the date, because we can’t use them again.

But the trophies are ordered several weeks before the contest when we don’t yet know how many competitors we’ll have.

(As a side note, as of last night we had 110 competitors registered!  If everyone shows up, this will be our biggest show yet, and – to the best of my knowledge – the biggest natural contest Idaho’s ever had.)

For example, we haven’t yet decided how many Figure classes there will be; it depends on how many competitors sign up.  We want to avoid having classes with 17 competitors like we did last year.  That was way too many in one group, making it really hard for the judges and making for a really, really long time on stage for those girls.  (Sorry!)

So, assuming that we have the same number of competitors this year, we’d need another full set of trophies so we can have four classes instead of three.  But, we’ve added a Bikini division this year too, so maybe some of the competitors who would have done Figure will do Bikini instead, meaning we might end up only having three classes and therefore only needing three sets of trophies.

Who knows?

So Bodybuilder Hubby makes his best guess and the trophies are ordered.  Hopefully we’ll have just the right number of competitors to be able to give away them all without needing to order more.

Actually, the UPS man just told me that he only delivered 14 of the 16 boxes.  He thinks the other two must be on another truck that should be here this afternoon.  Hopefully!