Day 15 - T.G.I.S. Sunday 10-11-09

Thank God It's Sunday!
Nothing improves a week like Sunday, the best part of Sunday is it is a no lose situation for me. Best case secnario is I get to play a bunch of soccer (which evolves around Soccer Troupe game) still get to church and get to watch a movie with the family. Second best just play a bunch of soccer and watch a movie. Sometimes there is no soccer on Sunday (I know) usually it'sa a holiday which is also a win I get to spend time with family and friends. Sometimes my kids soccer team has a game - this is a wild card - some tournaments are brilliant and you wouldn't be anywhere else - then...theres the "others". While these are certainly captivating they can make you wonder why the kids, parents, coaches, refs, shirt vendors anyone showed up....soooo frustrating. This Sunday the kids had the last game of a tournament we were hoping to close it out with a win (after a 10-0 and 6-0 defeat) it did not happen - we lost 3-1. The kids played fairly well and we really battled at times - the end however was dissapointing in the way they just kind of gave up in the last moments of the game. One thing I have learned from working with youth sports, you just never know - kids are so unpredictable, it so very frustrating. So what I am saying is this would have been a good time for scenario two as I missed all of Sunday morning soccer (soccer troupe lost 9-5).
Still it was a great day the afternoon was cool, made the world a cleaner place by cleaning two of my office accounts hung out with the family. I also had Sunday night soccer to look forward to, the game started at 6:00pm - I got there at 5:30 hoping there would be someone there to kick around a ball...no one and no ball...must wait...bummer. Christie and the boys showed up at 5:45 - the boys are Jose, Diego and Hector they are like 21, 19 and 16 and they pretty much live at the Castle playing soccer, reffing and busting on eveybody especially us gringos. They are awesome group of young guys and amazing soccer players - also they are very gracious in there tolerance of my inability to play soccer - they are very encouraging and don't hesistate to pass me the ball (even though I don't always want it). We had a really great game it was a lot of fun I was really trying to run as much as possible because it was my only game of the day - we won. Then as we were shaking hands after game someone mentioned we had a double header - thats right BONUS SOCCER! I was a bit dead in the legs and could feel the effects of "Going Ganhdi" but it was awesome - came home and watched "Amazing Race" (got to love the DVR).
So the weigh in numbers I was 304 this morning, a bit dissapointing but under normal circumstance I would be thrilled with 5lbs in a week.
Another great Sunday!
Talk to you soon,
Joe
Peace!