Day 9

Game Day!!

We got to Stockholm safely and I already love this city.  It's very cute and the weather is perfect.

The field leaves something to be desired... matted down turf with something like kitty litter instead of rubber pellets.  One of the uprights is bent inward, but it's the same for everyone.  We heard that they were only selling 120 tickets at the gate today, so cross your fingers that Mom, Dad and Holly can get 3 of those.'

Our hotel, eh hmm, excuse me...  Hostel sucks a$$.  There are four of us to each cracker jack box.  I'm sleeping on a bed that folds out of the wall.  No air conditioning.  No ice.  So I escaped last night to stay with Mom, Dad and Holly in the Clarion about a mile and a half up the road.  We watched the USA soccer game and went to bed.  That was nice.  One of the first times I didn't feel like I was in a prison camp.

So.  We play Austria today.  We're trying not to be over-confident, but the tournament director told us to go easy on them.  We're trying to advance the sport, not kill people.  We ate dinner after Austria on Friday, so we got to see them all smoking while eating their second helping of ice cream.  Hmmm.  Then they pulled out a football and inspected it as if to say, "this isn't that different from a rugby ball".

Have to run for pictures.  The game is supposed to be broadcast over the internet somewhere.  Check the IWFL website.  It's at 5am central time on Sunday.