It was kind of a last minute decision to fly to Iowa. (For me, anything less than 6 weeks is super last minute, let's be honest.) So we bought our tickets a week and a half ago. When your girl really wants you to come see her wrestle--and you possibly can--you go! (Bonus that I had an unused companion fare to use before the end of Nov.)
I'm blogging from the hotel lobby in Des Moines, so we aren't home yet. But so far it's been a very smooth trip. (I'm knocking on wood.)
We flew early Friday morning, so we got to go pick up Libby in Centerville and take her to a light dinner and on a Walmart run once we got in.
We drove back to Des Moines and I went to sleep while Derek streamed the SW playoff game, which they won at the last minute.
Saturday we spent in the Blake Fieldhouse watching Libby's team in their first tournament of the season. It went very smoothly (although the Flowrestling update texts were behind, so she ended up late to 2 of her matches...but she won both of those matches...)
She was worried about this transition to freestyle, and since they don't wrestle live in practice, she didn't really know how well she was doing. But she's well matched for the girls that were there yesterday. She won 2 matches pretty handily. She lost to the girl who took 2nd. Then she lost her 4th match to a girl who punched her in the face and poked her in the eye. But that was probably a winnable match if she hadn't been rattled (and ready to go to Olive Garden--so a little checked out.)
Anyway, it felt like a great tournament for her to see that she can do this! It's going to be a good season.
We are so glad we could be here with her.
My bestie Jen came down (over?) from MN to be with us for the afternoon/evening.
Derek drove Libby back to Centerville and Jen and I watched the World Series and got in a lot of awesome chatting about all the things (seminary being a main topic since we are both early morning seminary teachers.) It was such an exciting game (Derek was back in time to finish the game with us.)
I got to have breakfast with Jen before she left this morning. She has the pictures of us. So I'll have to add them later.
Here are some pics of our Libby time. (It was so fun to see her!)
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| I finally read Gretchen Rubin's Secrets of Adulthood on the flight. Loved this first quote (didn't crop this screenshot for some reason.) We did a pretty good job of this shift this weekend. But Derek did debrief each match with her a little bit. So happy to cheer on my Libby. Hopefully we'll be able to stream most of her other matches this year. (Some, like yesterday will just be a scorecast, not streaming film.) |
