Tournament #1

Well, once again, the photos are not showing in the order that I loaded them. I guess that's okay.

We made it to Nakusp safe and sound. We left around 3:30pm on Friday, so it was dark before we had gone too far from home, and it snowed off and on during the four hour drive. The road was unfamiliar to us and windy, a typical mountain road, but the conditions were not too bad. In fact, I wasn't stressed once because of the conditions, although it would have been nice to have been able to see what was on either side of the road. Or not.

The above photo was taken on our way home shortly after leaving Nakusp. Of course, there were no pictures to be taken on our trip there because of darkness. It was actually kind of weird to drive home seeing the scenery for the first time. I would love to make this drive in the summer; it looks very pretty.

This is Abby and Casey walking back to our motel from the arena after one of Sam's games on Saturday. Nakusp is only a village of about 1300, so everything we needed was in close proximity to each other. Our motel was basically two blocks from the arena. I still drove to each game; I forgot to bring my winter boots! The snow was just deep enough and slushy enough to make walking in shoes a cold and wet affair.

Here's a picture of Sam...looks like he was eating a potato chip. We arrived in Nakusp around 7:30pm on Friday and since we didn't play a game until Saturday morning, we had time to just relax.

Shaking hands after our semi-final loss to the home team. We played well most of the tournament despite having three games in one day. We won our first two games (8-0 and 4-3) and lost the lost two (5-2 and 5-1). Sam is the short player in black in the middle.

Our next tournament is in January in Oliver, BC.