I just got home from playing soccer with my old Seattle team, Red Alert.  We played out at Nathan Hale HS on their "synthetic turf" field, which is a very interesting surface, kind of grass-like, but definitely fake, with lots of little rubber chunks.  Heather came to play with us also, and brought a whole bunch of turf shoes for me to choose from, since I don’t have my own pair anymore.  It was like I was at a shoe store, with boxes everywhere… 🙂

Anyway – the game was so SO much fun!  I haven’t played soccer in so long, but I was still able to pretty much keep up and I think I played pretty well too.  And Heather did great (as always!).  I love playing with her out on the field.  It just feels right.  It started raining in the last few minutes of the game and it turned into a total downpour for about 5 minutes.  Everyone got totally soaked through to the skin, then it died down a little right as the game ended. I’ve been home for almost an hour now and my clothes (now hanging up to dry) and hair are still soaking wet!

I’m so glad I’ve stayed in touch with this team – and so glad I started playing with them in the first place.  That was all the way back in freshman year at SPU when I was working in the Admissions Department with Kathy… I wore some "soccer clothes" to work one day and she asked if I played, and if I was interested in playing with her team.  And so it goes.

Hopefully I’ll be able to make it to the three games that will happen while I’m in Seattle – and hopefully there really will be three games – and no byes or forfeits or weird schedule changes.  I sure miss playing while I’m in St. Louis, maybe I’ll try to find a team out there again now that my schedule might allow for it better.