Day 14b: we won!

USA wins the gold over Japan, 13-6! I got to be on the sidelines! They played so much better than this morning. Crushed their zone poachy thing. Ran harder. Cared. it showed. The japanese team was good but outmatched tonight. Hope some of yall watched the live feed that I think they were broadcasting online. awesome.

And Part C:

A few more details… I was nervous… I wasn’t even doing anything but felt nervous, which was weird. Tank and Amanda were both working this game, so I had to be extra loud for them. The crowd was big. I was a little nervous too b/c I wasn’t supposed to be out there. The team looked like they wanted it whereas before they just didn’t. More legitimate cuts, more running. Cate Foster had a sweet layout D. Bart had a couple sweet ds. Gwen had a really great layout catch for a goal. Beau skied a bunch of dudes. Dylan caught the last score. People did their jobs, and they looked good. After Dylan caught the winning goal from beau (after he had this huge catch), Chelsea and Cate ran up and jumped on him, w/ the rest of the team following shortly after. Chelsea then ran around w/ the American flag, and they did a little victory lap around the field acknowledging the crowd. Tank and Amanda immediately ran over to their stuff, took off their official linesperson shirts, and got ready to cheer and be happy. It was awesome. Medal ceremony was nice, not too long, and those guys had so many girls getting autographs it was crazy. Not just the guys I should say. Chelsea of course was a huge hit – spiked up Mohawk w/ red dye, blue dye on the other parts of her head.

Waited around for awhile while they did stuff and enjoyed their win, took pics, got changed, etc. didn’t get back to the hotel til about 11. I showered and when I got out Tank was back w/ instant noodles and a Taiwan beer tallboy for us to share. What a great roomie. Gchatted the sandos, texted faith and dan the plan for the night as well. We were going to hang out, drink, eat some food, then walk over to the party at the Holiday Garden (where coaches and stuff were staying). There was a lot of rushing when it came time to go. I was still kinda getting ready and eating and enjoying my beer. But we took cabs over (really short ride), and the party was funny. Small. Just fris players, and not all of them (no Canada, and japan showed up for a minute to say hi and bye). The Brits made up this song for USA to the tune of Do-re-mi-fa… from sound of music. Beau a queer, a female queer; Gabe, a name that sounds like gay; CK a type of lingerie; Bart who’s slightly overweight; Gwen who looks like sideshow bob; Chels who’s slightly ADD; Seth who’s not as good as ben; and that brings us back to Beau beau beau beau… Headed by a dude named Peter, the whole group of brits (who were also in charge of this get really drunk game) sang it super loud. It was good to get to hang out w/ deb a little – she was super happy. All of them were super happy. Greg got kind of wasted. So did beau. The bar was kind of big for this group, and some people were sitting around the outside, some in the middle, some standing at the bar. There were tvs playing wanted. Gabe bought a bottle of belvedere for 60 USD. We stayed there for forever. Then went back to our hotel but Tank, Beau, Alicia, and I went out and did some late night walking it off and biking near the love river – some extra exploring I guess. This involved Beau swimming the love river and riding the lion, taking 2 bikes up the elevator at our hotel, us going into the 7-Eleven w/ Beau on a bike to get more beers, riding two to a bike which admittedly wasn’t super safe or easy (beau and I had to get the hang of it meanwhile tank and Alicia kicked our asses in a race), I fell on my left side after probably tripping over my own feet and got a couple bruises, tank busted it riding his bike down from the 10th to 9th floor, we did some “yoga poses” in the middle of the street as the sun started coming up. And we piled on sleeping seth when we got back to the hotel.

PS, my pics for the evening's festivities had to be censored ... so you'll have to see me for some of the extras, or perhaps I'll create a private album for those of you interested in seeing the more NC17 NSFW or NSFF (not suitable for ... facebook) photos.