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… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
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!<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 … Continue reading