Oh forgive me! I had been working on trying to get this post up for about two weeks, then magically last night in a series of unfortunate events, I managed to delete all but the title . . . .Argh. Good thing the subject of this post is such a happy event.
We'll begin with a photo of the end. On June 10, we welcomed two British soccer coaches to our home for the duration of the week that they would be coaching our annual camp. I snapped this picture of them with the boys right before they headed off to their next assignment. It was a delight to have Otto (on the left) and Chris (on the right) with us and I hope they were able to enjoy their time here half as much as we enjoyed having them!
Xavier was finally old enough to register, and he enjoyed his first camp experience. He did really well (most of the time). I'm curious to see how he will do in fall soccer, if that materializes. He likes playing ball so much, it would be hard to keep him out.
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| Xavier didn't like the "Sleeping Giant" game until Coach Lucy let him be a giant too |
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| Number 6: Do some tricks! |
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| Number Two: On my shoe! |
The main camp group is ages 6-12, so Evan was one of the younger campers, but he was able to hold his own with the big boys -
and the big girls, too!
Evan was assigned to the Swedish World Cup team, and Cole to the United States team. In addition to scrimmaging the other camp teams, they participated in bringing a fact about "their" country, decorating their soccer balls, freestyle demonstration, biggest flag, and most creative flag contests. (No entries from us this year into the smallest flag contest.) Evan also went all out on Wednesday, plastering himself with Swedish design. And I'm not talking about IKEA.
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| Swedish Spirit |
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| The living United States flag! |
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| Practicing some freestyle tricks |
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| The largest Swedish Flag you will likely ever see |
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| Cole's winning ball design |
Their entry into the freestyle demonstration involved Cole placing a ball on Evan's feet while Evan was in handstand position. Then Evan tipped the ball to Cole who kicked it into the goal.
Evan's evaluation mentioned his "defensive abilities and also his reading of the game." Cole's evaluation noted that he was "a natural leader" and dependable. Xavier's evaluation said he was a "star player" with a great attitude.
We took Chris and Otto to Smitty's (happily we were able to host the meat-eaters), but they didn't get to Kreuz. We really hope they get to come back - maybe next week while they are off (July 4th and all). We were thrilled to bring them to Schlitterbahn with us after the last day of camp. Unfortunately, we lost the (waterproof) camera early in the day. Schlitterbahn called Saturday to say they had found it - but, alas - when we went to retrieve it this weekend, it wasn't ours after all. Or if it was, our pictures had already been erased.
I hope to possibly update this post with some video or more pictures, but want to get this "online". Can you believe I ever won awards in Newspaper Writing? I'm not very timely these days. . . .
