Las Vegas, We Meet Again...

As promised, this post discloses the results of the Las Vegas soccer tournament my team went to last weekend.  Well, really it was more of a showcase because we only played three games (and there were no semi-finals and final).  There were also some college coaches too.  Come to think of it, I remember seeing a Westminster College car in the parking lot and my dad thought he saw a Westminster person at one of our games. . . .

Sorry, I was getting a little distracted there. ;)

Pancakes!

This past week was the week of Mardi Gras or "Fat Tuesday."  It was followed by Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the catholic season of lent.  My church hosted a pancake supper to symbolize the big feast before a long period of fasting. The youth group was put in charge of taking orders and actually cooking.  There was about five to seven of us flipping flapjacks, serving guests and we even had a person calling out BINGO.  At the beginning, there were a few minor problems like having the two skillets short-circut the power outlet so we had to move them to a different area.  After a hectic twenty minutes, we finally got the hang of things.  Plus, a couple more kids showed up to help out.  One of them was my friend, Molly (feel free to check her blog out).  Although the turnout of people wasn't quite as good as last year, but it was still fun.

A Silver in St. George / "Dam" Las Vegas

Well, I haven’t posted about soccer in a while, but the only thing I’ve been doing for the past months is practice, which isn’t the most enthralling thing.  So instead of talking about my soccer, I will recall on this post my brother’s soccer tournament in St. George.  We left on Friday, drove for a good few hours, and arrived in the sunny, red rock environment of St. George.

As a result of not doing so well during their fall soccer season, my brother’s team was looking for a confidence booster in winning the tournament.  The first game, they won 3-2.  The second game, they won 1-0.  The third game, they won 5-2.  Now, I don’t what it looks like to you reading it, but those wins felt A LOT better than the multiple season losses, even from a spectators point of view.  After winning all three games they moved on to semi-finals, which was a success too.  The finals was pretty intense; going into overtime and penalty kicks.  Unfortunately, they lost during the penalty kicks.  Sound familiar?  Yep, this situation took place before in the girl’s high school state semi-finals soccer game.

Whoo, yeah! Second place!