Blarney Blast Soccer

Yesterday Lucas and his soccer team, the Jags, participated in a St. Patrick's day tournament in Bulverde. Bulverde is just north of San Antonio on the way out to Janma and Grandpa's house. Those grandparents were planning to cheer for the Jags at the tourney but Grandpa fell on Thursday and hurt his foot badly enough that he is on mandatory rest and take it easy for a few weeks. Jan is taking good care of him. What a strange opportunity for them at this stage in their life. They are both fiercely independent; this injury just may be a good opportunity for them to learn a new dependence. We sure missed them and the kids are missing them too. They were slated to be child care for the next three days while Kevin and I are out of town. That's an entirely different story. But it is worth saying that the injury took them out and another hero came immediately from New Orleans. Mima did get to see Lucas play two of his three games.
The tournament asked for them to enter a name contest so just for yesterday, the Jags were called the GreenGos. Get it, Get it...
So these tournaments are best of the best and so far our boys are winless in all of their tournaments. You should know that the entries in their age group are always very limited so in order for them to play their promised 3 games they have to play up in age. Most of the boys have been playing together for a few years and this year they are really clicking together. It really seems like years of practice and skills drills just started to be apparent in the game play. I can't wait now for the next game.
They did , btw, lose all games yesterday. They lost them better than they have in the past. Maybe next tourney they will get a win. Kevin said the first game was the closest but Lucas blocked several shots with his body so it could have been more of a blowout. Dad, you got to get to San Antonio and see him play before we have to start buying tickets for his games. OK, I am kidding about that but get here as soon as you can. It is time to see it.