The Sports Widow Experiences Torrential Soccer

June 3, 2007 9:41 AM | 0 Comments

This weekend I travelled to Charlottesville, Virginia, to celebrate my SIGNIFICANTLY OLDER brother Jeff''s 50th birthday, which gave me and my other brother, Scott, a chance to remind Jeff of how ancient he is and HOW MUCH YOUNGER we are. Jeff seemed to appreciate the sentimentality, but I was surprised when he said that--if I wanted to--I could catch an earlier flight home, earlier by about 2 days. HMMMMM. On Sunday, I had a chance to watch my 11-year-old niece Erin's soccer game. Unfortunately, the Seattle weather followed me to the East Coast and the experience was similar to watching soccer in an Amazonian rain forest.
Suffering throught soccer in the rain

Between the blinding, horizontal rain, my 7-year-old daughter Caroline's clear dissatisfaction with being a spectator under these conditions, and the fact that the teams didn't have names but were instead differentiated by color (both were blue), I found it all rather confusing. The good news was that my niece's team was navy blue and her T-shirt bore the name of my brother Jeff's construction business, which helped me keep a bead on my athletic niece. We left after the first game. My niece proceeded to play more games that afternoon and was muddy from head to toe by the end of it.

Soccer Ball Torrential Soccer-7yr.old Soccer Niece

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