Poultry Days was fun. Quite fun. I expected about 250% more rain than I
got, pretty much Saturday morning only. No sleeping in the rain. No actual
playing in the rain. Just some good playing, some quality hanging out,
some good fair food, missing all the traffic. Full writeup on the more.
Summer league Monday and Wednesday, Sushi maybe on Tuesday, Beach on
Thursday, and oh, Father's Day this coming Sunday.
Poultry Days was fun. Quite fun. I expected about 250% more rain than I
got, pretty much Saturday morning only. No sleeping in the rain. No actual
playing in the rain. Just some good playing, some quality hanging out,
some good fair food, missing all the traffic. Left Chi-town around 10:45,
apparently just before the way to Versailles turned into a parking lot,
got a tarp, a camping lantern/flashlight, and some Arby's before rolling
in to a fairly empty campground around 6pm. Set up in the middle of
Party Central, whoops, got some fair food, started drinking, waited for
the friends and teammates to roll in. Finally did meet some teammates
as Jessie stepped in for Ethan (who raised the money) for the Cool Hand
Luke egg eating contest for charity and won us some swass Gaia jerseys (with
the cloth lip for wiping the disc off). Tried to sleep, but failed
miserably because of poor location choice. My tent's awesome, my first
ever (thanks Leah!), actually used this year. Playing on Saturday was delayed
by a thunderstorm, which eventually gave way to beautiful day. Slim Chickens
did pretty well, winning out and and managed to get a 3 seed in the A bracket.
Watched Batch represent as best she could in the All Star game. Had some
chicken, showered in the pool showers (Now with Hot Water!), and some more
drinking. A game of Table Ball after some team bonding lead to an early
bedtime. Sunday rolled around and a quick start on the day's games brought
a quarters birth against last year's winners Breasts and Thighs. Tough
game, especially since I watched my guy (Aaron Bongard) score the winner, 11-9,
from about 20 yards away. Not a great way to end the weekend. Packed up,
said our goodbyes, planned on Potlatch, and made our (Leah, Remy and I) way back
to Chicago, a slight pause for Steak n' Shake and a random gas stop visit with
a couple of Leah's friends from Barcelona now in Madison and their new baby.
Some personal highlights on playing:
- watching Rocky Beach move on defense. So fast. Not just his legs, but this arms too. Got his hand on a disc, oh, a lot. I still remember one, turning away from the mark and his hand hitting the swing.
- leah picking the disc up, getting called by Rocky for first cut, noticing that they're forcing leah backhand, taking my defender 5 yards in before going deep for her sweet backhand put. Yeah, it was the honey connection.
- my first true layout D in a while. top of the cup, maybe short deep, heard leah oh the left wing call out "on your right" and the full extension fingertip D, onto the wet soft grass.
- watching Pat Hard put a 50 yard hammer, low and fast upwind
