Yesterday was a roller coaster of highs and lows. Our main objective of the day was to go to our tournament in Thurles for Tullamore. It started off when Christine picked us up in the morning and our road trip began. After picking everyone up, we collectively decided that it was a good idea to stop and get coffee at Costa. We got our coffee and snacks, got back into the car, and cue smoke. Something under the hood had created a worrying about of smoke and the battery was quickly draining. With only an hour until game time, we had to take a detour to switch cars with Damien so we could continue our road trip. At this point, we were definitely going to be late and were looking at potentially not making it in time to play in the first game. Christine was not going to let that happen though. We made it there with time still left in the second quarter, and honestly Christine should look into her future as a professional driver because she killed it.
The tournament was a great time! We played two other teams from Thurles and one team from Cork. We were short for numbers from our usual senior team so we were able to play with some players from the U16 team and it was so much fun. We ended the day 3-0 and were named the winners of the tournament! We got a nice little plaque for our title and were ready to go home.
Little did we know, it had snowed a lot throughout our day spent in the gym. It was the first snow Marisa and I had seen here, but all year we had been warned the Ireland doesn’t handle snow well. Trying to get home, our GPS wasn’t working, the major motorways had shut down, and we had no idea where we were. It took us a bit, but we finally got back on track and, lucky for us, were driving in the opposite direction of the snow. We made it home with only a small delay and were all thrilled to get to bed. While the day was filled with highs and lows, and I may be getting too old to play 3 games in a day, it was great to get the win with our team and actually see some snow on the ground!
