More Pikes Peak Pictures

Thursday Pikes Peak

We had a great breakfast filled with breakfast burritos. Delicioso!! We got our stuff ready to go and found out that 6 Flags was having a screaming deal. Passes for Thursday were only 10 dollars. Coach Smith, Wendi and Mrs. Mike went home on Thursday. Mike decided that it would be fun to take all the boys and Julia along. The boys had a fabulous time there and ended up taking off the next morning around 5. It was a cozy, cozy ride back with every seat taken in the white van.

Pikes Peak was a great experience, playing up an age category was a learning experience and a skill builder making all the boys feel able and ready for the real season to come. They can accomplish many things when they put their hearts together and play as a team, building each other up along the way.

Thanks to the Meibos family...all of them for sharing your home and family time with some pretty smelly, loud boys. You guys are SUPER!!

Wordage

On our trip to Pikes Peak we all learned some new vocabulary.

Doood (dude)

Done durdy (something miserable happened to you) ie. Someone crashed on the side of the road you say..."Dooo, that guy got done durdy."

Ligit (good)

Church (really good, sick, sweet, awesome)

If anyone else has anything to add put it in the comments.

"Duuuude, I'm the little girl!"

The morning started out with pancakes, eggs, sausage and fruit, thanks to Corin and Julia. Mike had put together the night before a Fifa tournament on PS2 and that countinued when everyone woke up. The boys were ready to go for this game because it was a cross over game against a Colorado Springs team into the younger age bracket (actually the same age as us)just so we could have our 4 required games for this tournament. Another team from Orem already played them and tied them. The boys were thinking this was going to be an easy win especially after playing such hard teams.
We played a good game and ended with a score of 5-2. After the game we ate lunch and headed over to Coach Brian's sisters inlaws in a town close where they had a slide on their 5 acre property. It was so fun to relax and slide and play volley ball. Here are a couple shots of different people going down the slide.















After sliding we went home and had a wonderful taco dinner and finished off the night with another Fifa tournament and several rounds of Werewolf.

Trivia question: Who said the title of this blog?

Tuesday Pikes Peak

Tuesday was our early day as we had two games. Our first and hardest game was against a California team. The game started out with a score for them in the first couple minutes stunning the defense and the rest of the team. They were fast and strong and very big. Not many boys on the team had seen or played against this caliber of a team before. Our boys became tougher and stronger and began playing with them. They answered back for every score and ended the half with a score of 4-4. I wished that I had recorded that game. In one instance, I'll call it a "scuffle" began in the middle of the field and within 1 minute, there were shoves, fists, hands, and hugs thrown. Very tense game indeed. The guys on both teams were friends for the rest of the tournament and I think some of them even exchanged numbers.

During the break we decided to visit Chapel Hills Mall.
We gave the mall a good boost when the boys went to the food court. The boys found soft, comfy spots to rest and get ready for the 2nd game.


We found Sean and Henry in the kiddie area taking a rest. Nate was lounging in Borders reading a book. We bought ice packs for sore and aching muscles.
Here is Sam in front of "his" store.

Christopher found a sweet lady to give him a massage and was hoping that any other Coloradoan would offer their support as well but he couldn't seem to find any takers.


After we got some ice we had all the boys meet us in Borders to rest in the cafe area until we needed to leave for the next game. Danny is icing his calf and resting.

Two minutes into the 2nd game the Air Force sounded the weather alarm. It started raining and lightening during the warm up and slowed down. One blow means go and wait in your car until 2 short blows are sounded. Our break wasn't very long and we were able to return to the game. Luckily we had gotten the harder of the two games out of the way in the morning. The team from New York only was able to gather just enough people to fill a team to come and play. Hence they subbed themselves out when they got tired and played sometimes with only 9-10 players on the field. During the 2nd half we also played down a couple men. The score ended up to be 15-0 us, with lots of passing and Mike and Brian moved players around to be a little bit more fair.

After we returned home we had a great dinner and Julia introduced us how to play Werewolf, a rendition of Mafia. Almost all the boys participated and those that didn't were downstairs playing Nintendo. We all had a great evening! Thanks Julia and Jenna!

Monday Pikes Peak

Monday began with a delicious breakfast of german pancakes, fruit and an assortment of bagels. Getting ready for our first game against a Colorado team, Julia and Kelly made each boy a gallon of water to have at each game. At the game Strikers had control of the ball for the majority of the game they couldn't control the score and ended with a 4-2 loss. But that didn't stop the fun when we got home and headed straight for the pool and hot tub at the community pool.

Pikes Peak Trip

Our beginning trip started at 9 a.m. Sunday morning. We all piled in our spots. Mike drove most of the noisy boys in the big white van. Joe, Uli, Renzo, Sam, Nate, Danny, Chris, Jake, Javi, Henry and Brad. George's dad drove as well with Sean, Danny, Coach Smith took Mrs. Mike, Jens and Wendi. It took around 7-8 hours to drive there. While Mike and Brent went the direction of the Meibos' home and dropped the majority of the boys off, Brian and his gang drove to check in the boys at the registration place of Dick's Sporting Goods 45 minutes in the opposite direction. Brent and George went and checked into a hotel that was closer to the tournament. Check in went smooth and they were on their way back to enjoy lasagna, salad and garlic bread, oh yeah and vegetables that were hardly touched. We met the Meibos family which included: Julia, Jenna, Jaylee, Kerst, and Kendall and of course John and Corin. We loved being with them. The boys enjoyed swimming at the community swimming pool, playing fusbal, air hockey or playing Nintendo. At the end of the day we celebrated Nate's birthday with a cake. I'll try to post the lovely video of the singing/eating of the cake.