curling is WAY under-rated. its totally awesome! i'm so serious, and its really easy too. i had the best time today. i had sooo much fun. and we totally kicked ass!!!
ok so here's the rundown. laney was our SKIP so she stands at the end and tells you were to aim and yells instructions as the stone slides down the ice. i really liked how she has her own terminalogy. she'd yell "yes" when we should sweep, and "no" when we should lay off. i know that doesn't seem that unusal but seriously, no one else used those terms. it's strickly laney. she's a great SKIP too. she'd never been a SKIP before, she usually plays 2ND in her monday night league. yup, that's right, we discovered today that laney is a huge curling nerd. but its great. we all have to be nerds of something. i'm a confessed train nerd.
i was the LEAD, melissa was the 2ND and sarah was the something or other. we tied our first game, lost our second game by 1 and won our third game. had dinner than won our last game. our third game was the game of all games. it was totally amazing!!! that was the game where we played the "med students" oh baby, that's right. they had a stone in the centre, and it was my go. I threw a heavy one and took it out, leaving my stone right over the button. the melissa set up a stone 5 feetish in front of it to block it. then one of the med students knocked it out, but my stone was thankfully still safe in the middle. then melissa went again. laney was like "ok, just like last time" and she did it!! it was great. so then laney threw 2 stones right into the house to win the game 4-1!! yay!!!
ah, those med students took it really well. they were shocked but respected us for it. they ended up winning the tournament, so really logically we should have won because we beat them. as we watched the final match, we discussed how the one in the hoodie was particularly attactive. laney was encouraging me to get his number, and even though i considered it in a joking kind of way decided against it. i was told once "he has to ring all your bells" and really he only rang one or two (cute & med student). on the lesley attractive scale i would rate him as an 8, which is quite good since most often cute guys are 7s. that's what makes a 10 so unique & special. those are v. rare. that's probably a good thing, since 10s make me feel 14 again and i can't think straight.
oh man, i had the funest time. dan roud was there and that was really cool. and a girl i recognized from somewhere. i kept saying to the girls "who is that person, and why does she keep smiling at me". eventually i narrowed it down and when she asked me "where do i know you from?" i said "did you go to frontenac?" i was right. although, she was in jason's grade so i didn't actually KNOW her know her.
well i'm gonna be totally bruised and sore tomorrow.
4 comments:
Les, You are THE LEAD of all leads, thanks for an amazing bonspiel... we must do more! I must confess that I enjoy your flattery, thanks for sharing in my nerd-ship! It is especially awesome that you have recorded the entire play by play of our best game ever, it is going down in history!!!! BTW, Sara was the Vice.
hahahaha. that's true, i didn't even notice that it was play by play. i realize that it was a really long rant about the curling but i just really enjoyed it. and the funny thing is i didn't even talk about the tape or the cold or the hard ice or the falling people. i had to leave so much out!!
ah good times.
thumbs up to us!!
And you didn't want to curl.... !?Curling will be the next "cool winter sport" for young people. I am sure of it. I think that we need to start a curling craze. It was awesome playing with you and the ladies. We should gather at the Brew Pub for another game when the ice is ready!!!
i'm a fickle woman. what can i say?
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