Much to the delight of Tracy we were all set for a weekend of football! First stop was Friday night micro soccer for Toby at Issaquah Highlands. It was his third week and this weeks match was against Fusion. The game started badly with Toto forgetting which way the Dragons were shooting as he scored an own goal with 15 seconds of the game starting! A 1-0 deficit was, by the end of the game, turned into a 7-2 victory. Toby scored 4 goals and the Dragons played very well against a team that were very aggressive – they seemed more intent on kicking, grabbing and pulling but the Dragons showed that skill wins over dirty hooligans!
Saturday football was limited to the back yard and Harry and Toby throwing an American football at Waverley Beach park. As the weather continued to insist upon being so lovely we went to the Kirkland beach park.
Tracy and I relaxed in our Tommy Bahamas chairs while the boys played football, made friends with a little girl (sociable little things), climbed (and fell off) the monkey bars and, inevitably, got soaked in the water. After relaxing in the sunshine it was back to Kirkland for a spot of lunch at Rikki Rikki – the Japanese restaurant. Full of yumptious food we did a spot of shopping in the kitchen store and then went back home to play some football in the yard.
On Sunday more football was on the menu again. First of all watching it on the TV and then down to Issaquah for Harry and the Gunners to play their next league game of the season.
It has been a tough season so far with the Gunners playing in the u11’s league. Most weekends they are playing against some pretty big lumps but this weekend took the biscuit! They were playing Emerald City from Seattle and they were huge! I think some of them were pretty much as tall as me! Harry got stuck in though and was very pleased with himself for tackling one particularly large player. Eventually the Gunners lost 4-0 but they played very well and 3 of the goals were very lucky (keeper mistakes and the other team playing to their height advantage). Some time soon they are going to give someone a spanking though!
After the game, Harry had a cool refreshing shower and we got ready for the final part of the football weekend – watching Sounders play local rivals the Portland Timbers. It was a huge crowd for the game – over 66,000 people, which was a record for a league game in Seattle. As we were there a little early we watched the Soundwave arrive and, just because I know you’ve missed them, here is a Soundwave video:
httpv://youtu.be/Af008OSH08Y
After watching the Wave we went up to our seats and made ourselves comfortable with garlic fries and beer – yum! Then the teams came out an the anthem was sung:
httpv://youtu.be/9pR1De6Cgrc
The game was a good one and the Sounders smashed the Timbers 3-0 which meant 1) free haircuts for everyone, and 2) free Tacos! I think that is what could only be described as the perfect result!
And with that a tiring weekend of football was complete – roll on next weekend when we can do it all again!