Thursday, July 26th - Hathersage Pool & Matches at Sheffield

First of all, I want to thank all of you parents for giving us such wonderful kids.  I didn't say much about the 4 hour bus ride home yesterday (it should have only been 2) but the one thing I will say is that the kids were just amazing.  They were so good and occupied themselves with talking, singing and playing games. 

So today we loaded them back up on yet another bus, they call it coach here.  Some kids did get to drive with their host parents.  We drove thru beautiful scenery with hillsides of sheep.  At 10:30 we arrived at the Abbeydale Sports club.   The kids were able to enjoy the heated pool (it was working this year)  however the "glorious" sunshine came out again..  Some kids played basketball and then we ate lunch packed by our gracious hosts.  Thank you to all!
After lunch, back on the coach and headed for Sheffield.  The girls did had a great warm up and were ready for another great day of lacrosse.  Only one game was played so we combined both teams.  Our girls won 16-2.  The boys did play 2 games.  U14 won 16-7 and U16 had a hard fought match that ended up with us winning 17-6.  I'm sure you will hear about this game.  It did get a little aggressive at the end when the score was 8-6.  I think our guys got a little upset and just went in and took the other team out.  That was my take on it.  As you see the guys never let them score again and scored 9 goals.  Great Job! 

As for the trip home tonight....NO TRAFFIC!!!!!!!!  That's all I can say.  Hopefully everyone is at home now getting ready to eat dinner at a resonable time (8:30pm) as I am.