This week has gone by so fast! I am sitting here, looking through all the photos and posting the photos from yesterday, putting off doing my laundry or unpacking and dreading figuring out what is for dinner tonight!
I had such a great time - each one of these girls is beautiful, funny, sweet, and wonderful. It was a treat to be able to spend time with them - I hope I get to do it again!
Ok, catching up - Sunday
I had to wake the girls up at 5:45 to finish packing, clean up their rooms and get everything downstairs by 6:30 for breakfast. Alexis and Calise were allowed 20 extra minutes to sleep in because they were completely ready the night before - way to go girls! Alex...not so much!
After breakfast, we took our last jaunt to the CC for the final day of play. Because of Calise's back injury - we were unsure if she was going to be able to play or not. Because of Madi's ankle injury, we were unsure if she would be able to play. Because Cassie can't breathe, we were unsure about her playing as well. If you do the math, you will see that leaves us with 5 healthy (well - semi-healthy) girls for our last 2 matches. So Trazi came up with the bright idea to have Karna Small from the 14's and the rest of the 12's team suit up and sit on the bench with us.
All three of our girls did play but it was awesome to have the energy from the younger girls cheering us on! We lost our first match in 3 games, but came back and won our second match - a great way to end the week!
We had a bit of drama when Calise was pulled from our first game because the doctors felt she shouldn't play, but after further discussion, they decided that one more match wouldn't hurt, so we got her back and thank goodness...she was on fire!
After the tournament, we took some super cute photos (see Festival Day 6) and Katie, Alexis, Alex, Calise, Siena, and Hailey went home with their parents. Sigh. Hard to let them go! Cassie, Madi, Trazi and I shopped for a bit, watched Katie's team play for a while, and then went to Subway for lunch. Our bus left promotly at 1:30 and we were on our way home. Typical hijinks ensued on the bus - that is always fun and funny to see. We watched the movie Milo and Otis and I thought Ralph, Como, Garrett, and Trazi were going to pass out when they showed the kittens and puppies being born - hysterical!
We arrived home nice and early - about 7:30 - and Karna's dad brought pizza for everyone who had been on the bus. So nice. I went home, hugged my hubby and my son, cuddled by dog and fell into bed for a very good night's sleep.
Festival is over - I am kind of sad. We had so much fun. The girls got along great, played amazing, and really bonded as a team. We ended up at #38 out of 95 teams - not too shabby for a 3's team plagued by illness and injury!
I will plan a team bbq/swim for after Trazi returns from coaching on July 17. I am looking at Saturday, July 21, or Monday, July 23 - how does that look for everybody?
Until then, keep safe and rest up!
Love you,
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