Powderpuff, Josh's final football game, and another pig roast.

Yesterday was a busy busy day for us. All morning Josh was helping our friends re-dig the pit for another pig roast, picking the pig up from the farm, and getting everything ready to start roasting around 1pm. I was busy at home making rolls for the feast and finishing homework. Josh's last intramural football game started at 3:30pm and my game started at 5pm. So we were both up at the field before 3 warming up. Our friend Cort was tending to the pig until we were done playing.

Josh's game didn't start out well. A couple of dropped passes and long throws discouraged the team. Then an awful call was made that set the tone for the rest of the game. A few moments after our quarterback, Bin, said hike and even threw the ball, we hear a whistle in the back field. One of the referees thought he saw a penalty but there wasn't one. By that time, Bin had thrown the ball for a touchdown to a receiver that was wide open. So everyone on the defense argued that the play is dead when the whistle is blown even though the touchdown would have happened anyway because the receiver was wide open. Offense of course argued that the whistle was blown by mistake and the receiver was wide open anyway. Long story short, we didn't get the touchdown and the down was replayed. This bad call decided the game because the 4th semesters lost 12-14. Losing wasn't the best way to end the season but last year the boys didn't even make it to the final game so I guess they can be grateful to have made it that far! (sorry there are no pictures of Josh's game... I was too nervous about my game to think about taking pictures!)

Onto Powderpuff! Firstly, it is interesting to me how nasty girls get when playing football. I don't think boys ever play quite as "dirty" as girls do. A single aggressive hit or smack in the face sends a flash of rage through the entire team. What is that about?! Anyway, I was one of two quarterbacks. How powderpuff works here is 1st and 2nd semesters form a team to play against a 3rd and 4th semester team. The senior team is expected to win which I think contributes to this rage I have been talking about! The game was a lot of fun and pretty competitive. After a lot of dirty blocks, choking calls on the other team, shoulder drops when blocking, tackles during flag football, several "almost" punches thrown, scratching of the face, and a lot of screaming, we won 12-19! It was a lot of fun minus the nasty bruise I have on my butt and foot and the goose egg on my head that I don't remember getting! Maybe I will play again next semester.

Josh captured a video of me running with the ball! I might like to add that my run up the middle was not the original plan... but I saw an opening and I took it!! For your viewing pleasure...

After we showered up, we headed over to our friend's house for the 2nd and probably final pig roast. This roast was even better than the first. The pig was much larger (around 130 lbs) and the meat was SO good. I made a sandwich with the meat and I swear I was eating the freshest Arby's sandwich ever! Weird huh!? I didn't take any picture (sorry) but the boys were behaving quite similarly to before. Something about cooking meat over a fire really gets these boys going!!

We have our Championship softball game today so more later!