Rancho Cucamonga Grape Stomp
Spent the weekend in Cucamonga at a soccer tournament (yes, it's as far is it sounds). It was raining HARD the first day. This is one of those that's bad no that's good things that Fluffy likes to do. Scooter had a fairly early morning game. It was raining really hard, but they didn't call it off. (that's bad) About halfway there, our car started to break down. We had to come back home and get our other car and Scooter missed the entire game. (that's good because he didn't have to play in the rain) We had a break, so we went looking for lunch and couldn't find the pizza place where everyone was meeting. That's bad. No, that's good, because we ended up with another family at their in-laws' house and had a much better time than we would have had at the pizza place. We watched Napoleon Dynamite, and now we all talk like him.

The afternoon game was a little drizzly and cold, but not nearly as bad as the morning game.

The next day was much nicer. Fluffy caught a ladybug and whenever she put it on the ground, Guido or I would accidentally step on it, and Fluffy would have to rescue it again. It was a pretty tough ladybug. We ended up having a funeral for it.

Arsenal played on the opposite field which was right next to a big, grassy hill. And you know what you have to do when there's a big, grassy hill - you HAVE to slide down the hill. Fluffy was having a blast rolling down the hill, so I finally joined her and we slid down on our rain jackets. I'm sure I looked like an idiot. I was the ONLY parent doing it. When the boys were done with their game, they all slid down the hill until they got yelled at by their parents. Then I felt really bad for being such a bad influence. But not that bad, because Fluffy and I had fun.

Arsenal took third place overall and got medals. Some of their games were brutal, and even when they lost and tied, those were the best games they ever played.

I LOVE WATCHING SCOOTER'S SOCCER!