Starry Unicorns

For my blogpost this week I am going to focus on something that is near to my heart.  Starry Unicorns.  No I am not talking about the magical beasts that you would see in a Barbie movie.        

I am talking about the Starry Unicorns made up of pride, valiance, and winners.  For those of you who still don't know what I am talking about, I guess I will just have to tell you.  The Starry Unicorns were an indoor soccer team, est. 2010, that played throughout the winter that year and ultimately ended up being the best team in the CISL league based in Maplewood.  

Those of you who don't think this is a big deal, I want you to stop reading now because you are not worthy of beholding the greatness of the Starry's. The regular season is really not that important at all, except for the fact that we only lost one game, Nbd.
Moving on to the playoffs/tournament (this is where is gets exciting).  Since we were the number 2 seed we would have to play 2 games in a row if we won the first game.  Our team was more focused on winning the first game and we really didn't even care if we won the second game.  The first had us playing a team that we knew a few of the players on the team.
From the get go, everybody knew this was going to be an intense  game.  Actually all through the game and overtime the game was tied which sent the two teams in to penalty kicks.  Through the first three penalty kicks no one had scored.  Jimmer stepped up to take the 4th penalty kick (with a unicorn horn on incidentally) and buried it in the bottom of the net.  Sadly the next kid for the other team made his penalty kick as well.
It went on like this for about 5 more penalty kicks until Jimmer stepped up again to take his second penalty, and once again he made the most of the opportunity.  That won the game for the Starry Unicorns who would now advance to the championship game.  In the game, Jimmer (another Jimmer) scored the only goal of the game with 5 seconds left in the first half to give us the win and the championship.

More Camping

             So in my last post I was talking about the previous experiences I had while camping in the cold and wet climates.  Well this weekend might rank up there with the top experiences.  As I may have alluded to, this weekend was our church retreat in the town of Bourbon, MO. Now you may not think of Missouri as a cold weather climate, especially in the months of September and October, however I am here to tell that it is.  As always my brothers and I were not given a chance to sleep in our heated trailer, no, we "got" to sleep in the tent.  The first night I went to bed with no expectations at all, however around 1 o'clock in the morning I realized that it didn't matter if I was in the mountains in June, or Bourbon, MO in September, it was still cold.  So cold in fact that I could barely stand to sleep that night. I was only able to sleep until the very early hour of 5 o'clock at which point I went into the bathroom and took the best shower of my life for about an hour.
             The next night was just as bad if not worse.  First of all you have to understand that our tent is huge.  It has comfortably slept 7 people with room to spare.  However, even with all of that space, I was pinned against the edge of the tent with no room to roll. If I were to roll to the right I would be immediately met by the dew covered tent, but if I turned to the left my brother would be right there coughing and breathing right into my face.  Not pleasant to say the least.  That night was worst that the first, not by much though.  Thankfully the retreat was very good, good activities and a good speaker (don't ask about the food).  Needless to say I was incredibly glad to come home and sleep in my own warm bed with enough space to roll around.

Camping...

            Today after much packing for our church retreat this weekend, I have officially decided that I never want to pack a camper-trailer one more time for the rest of my life.  It is a tiring and never ending job that starts about 3 days before we leave, depending on how long the vacation is, until the second that we pull out of our driveway.  As much as I cannot stand packing and loading our camper, I am very grateful that we have it, rather than having to camp in tents. We actually just purchased a new camper this summer and this will be our first time using it.  Of course it might sound like I actually get to sleep in the camper, but I don't.  Me and brothers have to brave the many different weathers in the tent.  There are a couple instances that come to mind.  

           The first was when we were in the Grand Tetons in Colorado in late May - early June.  Being those months we had thought that it was not going to be that cold so we didn't pack any of our winter clothes.  Bad mistake.  That night it probably got to about 20 degrees.  My brothers and I each had about 3 sweatshirts on, a few pairs of pants, and like 10 pairs of socks, while the rest of our family was in the heated camper, ugh.    

            The second instance was actually on the same vacation but about to weeks later.  Thankfully the weather had finally taken a turn for the better in terms of the temperature.  However we did not take into account the precipitation.  That night was the last night of our vacation and we were all ready to get home after three weeks of camping.  That night we fell asleep, but at about 12 a.m. me and one of my brothers woke up and found it was pouring  rain outside and there was about a 1/2 inch of water in our tent.  We fell back asleep not thinking much of it, however at about 3 a.m. me and the same brother woke up again and found that there was probably 2 to 3 inches of water in our tent. All the while my other brother was still sleeping.  We decided that we could not stay in the tent, floating about.  So we decided to go into our camper whether my parents liked it or not.

             Those were the two most memorable experiences in terms of camping that I can remember.  I am sure that there are many more that I cannot recall. All in all it is great to go camping, however there is always something that goes wrong every time we go camping.

First Blog and Blog Post Ever

         After about 30 minutes of trying to get a blog set up for myself I finally did and I am ready to blog.  I am not going to lie to you, I am actually kind of nervous about my first blog post ever.  I am now entering the deep and complex of blogging.  I have always read a lot of different blogs but I never really took in to consideration the time and effort that is required for one to blog.
        One paragraph into writing this post leaves me wondering how people can keep up with this on a regular basis.  I guess I wouldn't mind doing this if it were every few weeks or so, but all to often I see people updating their blogs sometimes almost everyday, which always leaves me scratching my head.
        Also, I consider myself kind of busy compared to the rest of the world. Then when I see someone that I consider busy blogging, I always wonder to myself why they are blogging.  I mean I can understand if blogging is part of your job, but I sometimes see people who already have a job, blogging like it is there job.
       So as I wind down this post, I wonder to myself if blogging should be a top priority in some peoples lives, or should they be focusing on their families or their jobs.  All in all, I really don't mind blogging and I actually think it is interesting, but I sometimes wonder if bloggers are using their time wisely.