Last weekend, we had our annual basketball tournament in York, NE. All in all, it was a pretty fun, basketball-filled weekend. Many kids on the team were battling illnesses and not feeling the best, so we had to throw together a really interesting mix of people all weekend. We also had a good reason to break in the new truck, so we decided to take that to Nebraska. It was fine, except we didn't have a Tonno cover, so we had to keep moving our luggage around when we needed to stop places.
We headed to Nebraska on Thursday after lunch. We all handled the 4 hour drive pretty well, and then got settled into our hotel. After visiting with everyone else, we headed out for supper. We went back to the Mexican Restaurant we went to last year, and we enjoyed a very good supper again.
Once we got back to the hotel, the kids went swimming, while the adults played some games and visited. We played cribbage and then Uno Flip with some of the older kids. It was a fun evening.
On Friday, we played a lot of basketball. Bethel had four games to play. We started at 10:30, so it was to sleep in a little. Bethel was outmatched in a lot of their games, but they played hard and learned a lot. They went 1-3 on the day. In between games, we did a lot of walking about Waco, NE to kill time and to avoid bleacher butt. Emma had a really good day. She came out a little flat in the first two games, but in the second two, she played really hard, was aggressive, scored some points, and got some rebounds. It was fun to watch her play and watch her continue to improve.
We finally wrapped up our day around 4:30pm. We went back to the hotel, and the kids swam until our pizza party. We all enjoyed some pizza, drinks, and more visiting until we were all ready for bed.
On Saturday, we had our pool play. We got seeded number 8 so we played the number 9 team, and beat them. Then, we had a devotion, awards, and then played again at 12:30. We lost horribly to the number 1 team, and then headed home.
On the way home, we stopped at the Nebraska Crossing outlet mall. It was beautiful day, sunny and 62 degrees and we enjoyed the outdoor mall. We shopped at Under Armor, Nike, Lindor Chocolate, the Croc Store, and a couple other places. It was pretty fun and helped break up the drive.
Our next stop on the way home was Hu Hot in Sioux City. We were all starving by that time, and we really enjoyed our supper. It was pretty busy in there, but it was a good stop. We finally made it home around 8:00pm and called it a day.
Sunday was pretty much a church day and then a catch up at home day with laundry and cleaning. It was a really fun, really busy weekend.
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| Dad and Emma at the outdoor mall |
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| Elliott and his new crocs |
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| Roadtrip to NE |
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