Sunday, January 5 was Matt’s birthday. We had a pub lunch with a traditional English roast dinner. It was amazing! We headed back to the house with Josh, while Stuart and Matt walked back to the Metro via a pokie (casino) bar and won $1200 Aussie dollars, which is about $700 American dollars. Not bad!
The airport food was amazing. It was my last hand sushi roll for my time in Oz. It’s one of my favorite things in Australia. Coming home is never fun, but actually getting back into a routine is going to be good for all of us.
My boy has a job! It’s perfect for him. Being a volleyball refis something he could do his entire life. The more seasoned refs have to be well into their 60s. I told him this could be something to have as a side hustle his entire life. And it pays really well. No, I won’t be going to watch him ref all the games, but this first time seemed important to him. He did a great job as well.
A second dinner? Probably!
My boss, and friend, Kristi, gave me this cup for Christmas. Camden is her youngest son, and this cup is truthful!
That little bitty one to the left of the girl in the black is Millie. She’s the loudest kid on the team, which is no surprise.
The boys wing boys at the LA Convention Center.
This is Millie’s team. She loves these girls, but this was a frustrating weekend as she only played for about 7 points in the last set of say one, she didn’t play on day two and played three points in the last set on day three. We don’t expect her to get equal playing time, but at this developmental stage we do expect her to play a little in each match or at least some during the day. It was heart breaking. Needless to say, an email went out to the director after the ‘cooling off’ time and a meeting was set up.
While Millie and I stayed here for her MLK tournament, Jack and Stuart were in LA for the last tournament of their club season before school volleyball started. It wasn’t the result they wanted, but Jack got to use his new leg massagers.
Millie had an invention she had to make for science class. She made microwaveable heated socks. It was all her idea.
Three dogs, one bed. Plenty of room!
She got her braces off after two and a half years. Next comes the extraction of wisdom teeth. Yahoo!
