tourney

This boy had a tournament last weekend.

He's playing competition soccer this summer.

Notice the goalie gloves and jersey?

Yep, he's a goalie*.

(Turns out he's really good at it.)

By the second day of games, these two were showing limited enthusiasm for soccer spectating.

The tournament was far enough away that I didn't want to drive back and forth, so we got a condo and had a mini vacation.

When we weren't soccering, we played around at the condo's ammenities.

We went swimming.
Six times in 2 1/2 days, in fact.

We played mini-golf.

We played tennis.

Some of us put on our football uniform and ran madly around the tennis court.

Oh, look! I was there too.

I didn't get any pictures of the hours and hours and hours of tv watched by the kids.
We just finished up "No TV month" and I think they made up for the entire month while at the condo.

Even though it was a really short trip, it was great to get away from normal life.
Yay, for mini vacations!

*Back in the Spring they had try-outs for the competition team.  Aaron had just come back from a Scout camp-out where he and the other scouts stayed up the ENTIRE** night.  He got home just in time to play in his soccer game. Immediately after the game they had tryouts.  By then he was a little bit deliriously exhausted.  So when they asked what position he was trying out for, he said, "Goalie" figuring he wouldn't have to run so much. (He'd never played goalie before) So oddly enough, he is now playing goalie.  Weird how that happened....

**der.