This past weekend we went on Saturday and watched Holland's game in the World Cup at the cantine at the Orioles. I can't remember who they even played but we won!! Its funny because I honestly could care less about soccer but when I'm watching it I found myself totally getting in to it. Lotte and I are both cheering for the U.S and Holland. I cant just pick one..I feel its ok for me to just cheer for both! haha. So on Sunday we had 2 games against the top team in our league. They had not lost a game yet, just tied a few. We went into the weekend in 4th place and this team in 1st. I cannot even say their name but they are Zwijndrecht. Anja pitched the first game and we tied 4-4. We really should've won but we left a lot of runners on base. I was in relief for that game but I never had to go in so I just sat there freezing my ass off. It was windy, sprinkling and it felt like it might snow. I had my earwarmers on, 2 coats and my handwarmers. Apparantly they dont use handwarmers over here because they were all very curious about what they were and when I let them feel how warm they were they all wanted some. Over here you only play 6 innings no matter what so if you tie, then you tie. You go off of points, so if you win you get 2 points..if you tie each team gets 1 point. We won the second game 1-0. I threw a one hitter, no walks..not sure how many strikeouts but there were quite a few. I didnt hit this game because my hamstring was tight from pulling it earlier in the week and since it was so cold my coach didnt want me to push it and seriously injur myself. Either way it was nice to give this team their first loss. We moved to 3rd place now and the team in front of us is Sparta/Feynord who we swept my first weekend here. Because of our slow start before I was here there is no way for us to get 1st place because we cannot catch up in points but we do have a chance at 2nd place and if we place in the top 2 then we get to move up to the top level next year. Afterwards we watched the baseball team for a bit before going home. The family went to Margreets parents house for her 80th birthday dinner and I stayed home and watched Gladiator with Elmo and Sinan. Here are the pictures that Margreet took at the games..
---they got the saying on the banner from pictures I took of our locker room at Redlands. I thought it was cute.
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