It was a lovely, meandering sort of weekend, the sort you can only have in early July, with the whole of summer still ahead of you.
It started on Friday evening with a swim at the tennis club. Though the skies were threatening and the water cold, it is always wonderful to swim. Afterwards, we ran into our friends and dallied over liquid freezies and coffee. We came home and played a family game of Apples to Apples (which is quite a good game for parents!).
The rest of the weekend was a lot (but no means all) about soccer as it was another tournament weekend. So while Jaime and Aveen were at soccer, Amrita and I made our way back to the pool and then to our friend's house where we were having a wonderful reunion dinner with another set of friends on vacation mid-way through their posting overseas. It was a quintessential summer evening, perfectly warm with some breeze. We sat on the patio and ate and chatted until the wee hours (past 10:00 which are the wee hours when you have to be on the soccer field in Blackburn Hamlet by 8:00 the next morning).
We didn't sleep for very long last night. The wake-up came far too early. Aveen and Jaime left early, and a friend of Amrita's came over. A friend of mine then picked us up and we went to the Farmer's Market where there was face painting, organic vegetables (kale and colliflower curry tonight), lunch at the tennis club, and (of course) a swim.
Then we rushed to the soccer game as Aveen's team had made it to the Finals. It was a close and exciting game, tied at 1:1 at the end. The game went into overtime. Alas, the other team scored and it was "sudden death" for Aveen's team. They still won the silver medal and only lost gold by 1 point in a Tier 1 tournament despite being a Tier 2 team - more exciting (for me) than Wimmbleton!
Tomorrow, I start language training. Another milestone.
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