Spelling Bee in Cheyenne

I don't normally look at those newspapery things in grocery stores or liquor stores (where I go to buy cheap Pepsi, mark you, not liquor!) but someone had suggested that I advertise my Scrabble tournament in that, because it was free.

So I picked up an issue and there were lots of interesting Community Events in it that I circled and will attend throughout the next couple of weeks... but I also saw an advert for the AARP Annual Spelling Bee to be held in August.

The entry fee is a bit steep, $40, but I think I'm going to go for it. They've got a website where they give you phonetic spellings of words and you're supposed to spell them for real, and I did pretty well. They were all "real" words, that anyone with a large vocabulary might know, as opposed to those stupid words that are asked on kids spelling bees, that no one has ever heard of .

So, I think I'm going to give it a try.

This Spelling Bee is an annual event hosted by the Wyoming AARP, and I tracked down their website and asked them if they'd like to partner with my Scrabble Club. It makes sense, doesn't it? Good spellers would naturally like to play Scrabble...

So, we'll see what happens....