This weekend, Doug and I traveled with my hockey team to Nashville for district playoffs. There are four teams in the Southeast district, and the winner goes to Nationals in Green Bay. We ended up winning all of the round-robin games and moved on to the championship game Sunday morning! My original flight was scheduled to leave before the game, so a couple of my teammates worked to get me on a different flight. While Doug left Sunday morning on our original flight, I geared up for the game that would decide if we moved on to Green Bay or if our season would be over. The game was crazy awesome! Crazy in that the refs were horrible using a 3-man system (all season they run a 2-man crew) so the game became dangerous very quickly. Awesome because that meant since the other team could get away with hitting my teammates, and especially my goalie, I could get away with hitting them right back! Now for those of you who aren't as familiar with hockey, when I say "Hit" I don't mean throwing punches (I know I'm aggressive, but I'm not violent!). I mean some body-checking, and becoming a brick wall in front of my goalie when she had the puck. 90 minutes later, we were crowned the Southeast District Champions! Instant flashbacks to being 12-years-old and having an award ceremony with medals and parents taking team pictures on the ice!
The celebrating was short lived when I found out my afternoon flight had been cancelled due to freezing rain in the DC area. All flights in and out had been grounded. Having to spend the next 36 hours trying to get back to Maryland and taking a day off of work was not ideal. On the other hand, our team played well, both goalies were AMAZING! Best of all, WE'RE GOING TO NATIONALS IN GREEN BAY! (Did I already mention that? . . .)
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