11/15 #2
Yesterday was a long day... and strange, too.
My daughter's game was against a team 30 minutes away... To be safe, I suggested we leave an hour early so that we'd at least get out of the house 45 minutes early. Good thing, too: there was not just one, but two traffic incidents along the way. The first was an overturned garbage truck that had apparently caught on fire as well. That had the freeway closed down to one lane and it looked like rescuers were still looking over the edge of the freeway (where there was about a 30-foot drop) for something... Getting past that, we made good time until the bay bridge--which had been shut down because of someone
threatening to jump. Luckily, that cleared up quickly and we just made it for the game...
My daughter's team had beaten this team once already, and for
three quarters, they had the game well in-hand, leading by 2-1. Somehow, though, they slowed down in the last five minutes and the other team quickly scored twice just before time ran out. A disappointing last game for the girls...
We then headed to my son's team's tournament. After a mad dash to get to the usual field, we realized that the games were actually being played on the field at our kids' school. Sigh. We managed to get there in time. This was a tournament, with each team playing several others in 20-minute games before the leaders were tallied and played against one another in the final. My son's team, which had a perfect season of zero wins, managed not only to tie one of their games, but, by some improbable math having to do with the scores of the games that they lost, managed to make the finals. They lost, but it was rather funny that a team that had not won a single game made it that far. Of course, we had to wait for other teams to play before all of this panned out, so we didn't leave the field until 4 hours after arriving...
Mind you, that we left the house at 9:40 that morning (sorry about not responding to your PM about posting the contest link, GMO--I barely had time to post as it was), and were finally finished at 4:45 without having had a chance to eat. So we headed to an all-you-can-eat salad bar restaurant and stuffed ourselves. Exhausted and full, I started falling asleep on the couch at about 7:30 pm--managed to wake up enough to put the kids to bed and drink some more water before heading to bed early...
