It’s Friday, which means we’re supposed to
start with the football report, but it’s also the first day of the fall
festival; so should I start with football or festival?
We’ll go with the football; but only
because most of our day at the festival just wasn’t that much fun thanks to the
rain that teased us by holding off until shortly after we got to the park; and
then hung around until nearly half-way through the football game.
The good news there, is that our team seems
to do fairly well in cool, wet weather.
Tonight, we beat Three Rivers by a score of fifty-nine to
forty-one. Out of our eight touchdowns
on the night, Michael had three of them; including one defensive interception
for a score. Tim and Caleb had two each;
and Lucas had one. We only kicked one
field goal, and while the guys hadn’t intentionally left Jason Johnson without
more field goal chances; it was a bonus to have him in fourth place on the team
scoring this week so that he didn’t shoot his mouth off all night. That didn’t totally work, since he did have
nine successful kicks for points; but at least he wasn’t being quite as annoying
as he has after other games.
On the cheerleading side of the game, it
honestly wasn’t much fun to start out being wet and staying damp and cold for
the rest of the game even after the rain stopped. We also didn’t exactly have a huge turnout of
spectators. Most people who wanted to
brave the weather also wanted to be at the festival.
I wanted to be there too, but we would have
had a lot more fun with warmer weather and no rain. It isn’t totally fair to suggest that we didn’t
have any fun, but let’s face it – cold, rainy days are just not great for
playing carnival games or going on midway rides. We could still enjoy the shows and displays
in the various tents and pavilions in relative comfort, and we did that during
the morning; but we also spent a lot of the afternoon cold, wet, and
uncomfortable.
After the game, Michael, Tim, Rowen, and I
went to the teen dance at the park with most of the other members of the team
and squad, and we didn’t get rained on; but it was still cold and damp out; and
we eventually came back to my house a full hour and a half before we needed to
be home. Our two attempts at going on
rides tonight didn’t work out either; since Rowen and I were too cold to enjoy
them. Michael and Tim were too, but had
to be too cool to admit that.
How ridiculous is it to be too cool to be
freezing? Think about it, guys!
Before I move on from the fair news, I’ll
mention that Jenny got to spend the day with Lance because the students from
his school were at the park today too – as were most of the students from
neighboring towns. They hung out with
Rebecca and Lucas, and while Lance went home on the Maple Valley busses; he
drove back here tonight to watch Jenny – I mean the game – and then go to the
dance with her too. We didn’t see that
much of them tonight; so I suspect that they were finding something else to do
to stay warm – like making out in Lance’s car.
There was some Grade Nine teen dating news
today too. Allen and Karla went to the
festival together today and tonight, and from what we saw at the dance; I’d say
they’re officially dating already, though the official announcement hasn’t been
made. At the other end of the drama
scale, it looks as though Lily and Kris are about to break up. They were still together today, but barely
spent any time together at the dance tonight.
We haven’t heard why that happened yet; but neither of them looked to be
particularly upset – they just didn’t want to be together.
As I mentioned, we came home early, and
though we didn’t have enough time left to watch a full movie, we did get cups
of hot chocolate and a warm snack; and watched one of the Simpsons’ Halloween
shows while cuddling and getting warmed up again. Michael and Tim needed to go home after that,
but Rowen’s spending the night. After we
said goodnight to our respective boyfriends, she borrowed my bathroom for some
quality time with my Jacuzzi; so I’ve been doing my usual nightly computing
while she’s busy with that.
I don’t have any other news from that, or
for the rest of today; but I can report that the weather forecast is looking a
bit better for tomorrow and Sunday now – at least from the rain
perspective. It’s still only going to be
in the fifties tomorrow, and might hit the low sixties on Sunday; so maybe the
festival weekend won’t be a write-off after all. The down side is that today was Michael’s big
chance to have fun there, and he’ll be busy helping out at the Inn a lot
tomorrow and Sunday – and I’m going to help out with the buffets on Sunday too. That’ll leave me with more time to play with
Ethan, Ehlana, and our collective family; but I would have liked to have more
fun with Michael too.
Rowen’s going to be done in the tub soon,
and while I’m not going to take a turn doing that tonight too; I am ready to
wrap this up and just end our night with some girl chat time – assuming we don’t
just end up falling asleep five minutes after we snuggle in bed with Mandy.
I would have loved to have a more entertaining
first day of the festival to report, but this is just one of those examples
when even a junior Magi Master has to deal with a not-so-great day.
Hopefully, tomorrow will be better. Until next time...
...May the Magi Force be with you!
