Bjarki’s First Football Meet – Skagamótið 2014 – Day Two
[Written 14 JULY 2014. Because of clogged brains.]
Day two of the football meet greeted us with more of the same weather wise, and a lot more football. (39 images total)
The boys started waking up around 7 am, which was fine because we had to be at breakfast around 8:30 am.
Breakfast was served in a sports hall adjacent to the big indoor field.
Morning people? Hard to tell.
The almost empty food hall.
Time to enter the big house.
Bjarki getting a fancy hair do.
Oh yeah baby!
The hair-done team, although we were still waiting on the last kid to arrive from the city.
Some warm up exercises.
Game #1 on Saturday. Only three more to go!
The boys are still at the age where they basically all chase the ball all the time. Only a handful of them know how to pass. It makes for easy exhaustion.
Losing is not a lot of fun.
Game #2 about to begin. The games for each team were scheduled an hour apart and each game was 2×12 minutes.
This was the only game they won that day. There was much happiness.
Snack time!
While they were snacking I walked on over to chat with my cousin Ríkey, whose boy was playing with HK.
Smiling people are the best!
Lining up for game #3!
Bjarki close to touching the ball. He isn’t a very gung ho player though, so he may have let it be.
Getting a hug from mom. At this point Bjarki was pretty much done for and just wanted to go home. I bribed him to play the last game by buying him a chocolate cake and giving him hot chocolate.
Their last game of the day was played outside.
Busy answering Who’s the BEST?!
Confusingly, they played the other Breiðablik team in their category. Even more confusingly, the goalie didn’t get a yellow shirt, so I kept getting confused which way they should be going.
Bjarki tried to get himself substituted off as much as he could, and when he was on the field, he basically walked along with the ball at a distance. He was so done for!
Final rallying before the boys went to eat lunch. Afterwards they could go do their own thing until dinner.
One of the two bouncy castles on site.
Bjarki in line for the second one after already trying the first one.
That’s a lot of people!
Some more games laid out. I decided my feet needed a break, and preferably a hot tub soaking. The local pool was utterly swamped (there was a huge line to get in) so Bjarki and I drove to neighboring Borgarnes where the pool was also busy, but not so crazy busy that there was a long line to get in. The hot tubs were a bit sardine-like though…
We returned back in time for an early dinner, and I excused myself for a bit and…
… went back to Galito for another taste of their food. This course was not quite as mouthwateringly awesome as the the previous one, but still very very good.
Photo from the busy restaurant.
Yes, I even treated myself to dessert. Shhh, don’t tell anybody!
Afterwards we went back to the school where the boys where sleeping, and got things set up for the night. I would not be sleeping there, only Bjarki.
We headed back to the indoor field for a bit of a show.
I let Bjarki fend for himself in the crowd for a bit, but towards the end I took pity on him and gave him the royal treatment.
Very funny mister!!
Last trip of the day to the school. I helped get Bjarki into bed and then disappeared to…
… the food hall, where the entire town seemed to have left some awesome goodies for us parents to nosh on. I met my cousin Ríkey there, and afterwards we headed to my cousin Lilla’s place where we slept overnight.