Surf Cup Soccer Tournament

Over the Thanksgiving holiday we traveled with Evan and McKinley to the Surf cup soccer tournament in San Diego.  We got there on Thanksgiving day and were able to have dinner with my college roommate Sarah and her cute family.  It was an amazing dinner and a fun time.  Sadly, I don't have a single picture from our stay there!

On Friday we didn't have any games until the afternoon and so we went exploring.  We went to the beautiful San Diego temple and walked around the grounds.  There is always a special peaceful feeling at the temple grounds.  It was nice to walk around the beautiful grounds and enjoy the morning.  We then drove around UC San Diego with Austin on the phone so we could tell him about it.  It's one of the schools that he has already applied to and so it was fun to talk to him about the nice campus.  It was pretty deserted and it was a rainy day, so it was hard to tell too much about the college, but we gave him some information.

 After the college drive through we headed to the coast and explored La Jolla cove.  There were seals on the rocks and some really slippery rocks to climb about on.  I actually fell really hard and hurt my leg, but Dave and the kids had fun climbing around all the rocks and avoiding the waves as they came in.  There was even a few people swimming in the ocean, one lady was in just a swimsuit...brrrr.

Finally we were able to go and play some soccer!  The Blue Knights did so well.  We were up 2-0 on the first team that we played, but unfortunately let that lead slip away to defeat 2-3.  Sad.

They played two other games, where they really played well and ended up losing by one goal in each.  It was a great experience and it was really nice to have some different competition and for the boys to learn to play more aggressively and together.  We're so glad that we went!