The Wettest Soccer Game…Ever
On Wednesday I attended the wettest soccer game ever anywhere since the world began.
One VERY wet soccer player!
But Wednesday’s soccer game took the warning “Rain or Shine” to a whole new level. Let’s just say NOAH would have been intimidated. When I realized that the raindrops actually hurt as they fell, I had Dave call the assistant coach of the soccer team and ask if, perchance, this game would be, well… rained out. Oh no, that doesn’t happen, he said. And so off I went with a carload of 6th grade girls and Ty, who insisted that he loved the rain.
Mud Puddles
What resulted was 90 of the wettest minutes of my life. And I was on swim team. The girls were soaked to the skin within 3 minutes — aka the walk from the car to the field. The parents had various rain protection devices with them — aka, boots, umbrellas, and a stoic attitude. Ty and I huddled under our newly purchases “sports-brella” which is a giant, oversized umbrella designed to sit on its side, like a cave. Ty said to me, “If we had to live in this sports-brella, that would be so sad!” Agreed. When Ty realized that staying dry was hopeless, he headed straight for the puddles. Well, I thought, at least I don’t have to go to a birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese.
The good news is that the players had a good time and that when we got home there were hot showers and chili dogs waiting for us. Processed meat never tasted so good.
After I gave up on the notion of trying to stay dry, I kept thinking to myself how lucky we were to be playing on a turf field that day on not the grass field we are normally playing on. If we were on the grass field I would still be trying to get the mud out of Madeline’s soccer clothes. That sure was some rain squall we had going on!
I love it!! Thanks for taking all the girls that day……so I could go to Chuck E Cheese!! Hoping swim team will be a little drier this week for us observers. Thanks for the blog everyday. It always starts my day out with a smile.
It actually was kind of a fun outing once we “committed” to being very wet. Next time I am bringing hot cocoa and a tent.
Sounds miserable. But not as miserable as Chuck E Cheese! I think you were the winner in that one!