11 July 2021

Artesians Game

Saturday was a lovely day for soccer. The season is over for Ben, but the local soccer team is still playing games. I loaded up the boys and we headed out to see the Artesian Womens team play Oly Oly (in a confusing turn of events, I believe both teams are actually from Olympia).  It was a toasty 80 degrees out and the bleachers did not have any cover (actually a little unusual in this area) so it was quite warm and sunny - not typical here.

Though, to Ben, this weather still warrants a jacket and pants.

The boys have apparently completely adapted to the Pacific Northwest - despite hats, all they could do is complain about how sunny it was and how the sun hurt their eyes.  And thus I was conned into buying four $2/pair sunglasses.

Gotta support the team!

The boys also spent a fair amount of time at the food truck purchasing lemonade and mini-fry breads. No complaints from them about either.

Sure there was a lot of real soccer that happened over 90 minutes (by the way - 90 minutes! Nobody told me real soccer games were 90 minutes! I've been going to Ben's 60 minute games for over 5 years!), but my favorite pics are from half time. (Do they even call it that in soccer? So much I still do not know.) They placed a huge inflated soccer ball on the field and invited the kids to come out a roll it around. Isaac had a blast.

The sun really was unrelenting and all the boys except for Ben lost interest before the game was over, so I called Jason to come rescue them and bring me some sunblock. Ben and I stayed to see the Artesians win 5-0. It is always hard to see a score like that, but that score really reflected the type of game it was. It was exciting to watch a game at that level and I think we'll try a college game next. 

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