A Mommy-Daughter Soccer Weekend in Arizona

Cat's team is competing in the National League Desert Conference this year, which includes three weekends of games against elite teams from Arizona, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, and Nevada.  The first weekend was - thankfully - in Salt Lake earlier in the fall.  The second weekend, the week before Thanksgiving, was in Phoenix.  Ben took care of the other kids at home and Cat and I flew to Phoenix for the games.  It was fun to see a few other girls from the team waiting for our flight, as well as several other soccer players going to Phoenix for the same purpose.  The flight attendants even wished all of the soccer players good luck when we landed in Phoenix.

The schedule worked out pretty well.  With an afternoon game on Friday, we were able to take our time, have a big breakfast and get to the field without any problems, which I particularly enjoyed since the weather was just beautiful - warm and sunny without being uncomfortably hot.  They tied that game.  Then after going back to the hotel for showers, we went out for burgers and saw "Fantastic Beasts: Crimes of Grindelwald."

The next day we met up with some local friends for breakfast - it was so great to catch up!  Then Cat and her teammate had some time to play pool games before we left for the noon game.  They won that game.  Yeah!  After the game we picked up some lunch and brought it to one of the teammate's hotel that had lawn games.  After hanging out for a bit we left for the airport so we could return the rental car and catch our flight home.

Cat and I took a few minutes at the airport to admire the cacti before going in.  We didn't appreciate the cold when we got back to Salt Lake, but it was good to be home.

The team played the following day too, tying that game as well.  That brings their overall record from the 6 Desert Conference games to 2-3-1.  Not too bad.  Their last weekend is in Vegas in March.