Soaking Soccer Saturday

We had 3 water polo soccer matches today. While it was raining nearly 3 inches in about 2 hours this morning, my family was at two different soccer fields, throwing all common sense into the hurricaine like rain. Madison played the entire game for the U13 Flames team against Middlebury. I've never watched a game in that strong of a down pour, I seriously think it was stronger than the water pressure from our shower head. After the game Madison sincerely told me, "That was fun!" O.H. M.Y. S.T.A.R.S. That was not at all what I was thinking during that hour and a half. Madison and Holyn found this puddle that they couldn't resist playing in after the game. It wasn't physcially possible to get any wetter so why not? I wish I could have gotten some pictures of them while they were playing but I didn't dare take my camera out of the van. The U13s lost something like 7-0. In the meantime Tony & Quinn were at his CYS game. I heard Quinn played very well and they tied 1-1. Their record is now 4-1-3 (3 ties). This afternoon it quit raining long enough for Quinn's U11 Flames team to play, back in Middlebury. He played goalie the whole game. We lost 6-2. The boys are probably not going to win very many games. All of the players are new to the Flames except for 2. It's a "building year"... ha! They are all 4th graders and the team is U11 so the other teams have 5th & 6th graders on them. Some of them look as tall as I am.

It's only 6:30 and I've already eyed the clock... seems a lot later. The rain is now back with promises of Hurricaine Ike joining us tomorrow. Two games tomorrow afternoon will probably look like a rewind of today. Anyone want to join us? I'll bring the boat, you bring the oars.