We didn't show 'em today 07/22/11

My alarm started sounded at 5:30 this morning.  I hit the snooze until 6:00 and then had to take a quick shower and get ready to leave.  Today is our first game at the Show Me Games.  My son is in going into the fifth grade next year and this is the first time he has played.  We left the house at 7:00 and met up with the rest of our team.  We all put “Go Jays” and such on our windows and headed to Columbia from Marshfield.  There were six cars in our convoy and the lead driver was not a slacker.  I was going 80 mph trying to keep up.  We past several highway patrolmen and I can’t believe we all made it with no tickets.  We were able to make it in plenty of time for our noon game.  I don’t know if the boys were just out of their element or what the problem was but the game didn’t start out too well.  The other team was up four to nothing within the first couple of minutes.  By half time, we were losing eight to thirteen.  I didn’t think that was too bad because we weren’t playing too well.  We were making bad passes and just not handling the ball well.  I knew we were a better team than that so I thought we might be able pull it out in the second half.  Unfortunately, apparently the other team was not playing their best during the first half either.  After the second half started, we didn’t score for several minutes but the other team did.  We ended up losing 34 to 13.  Ouch!!!!  Well, it was a learning experience.  Tomorrow we have two games so hopefully they can be a little more competitive.  We are having fun anyway but it’s definitely more fun to win!