Basketball

I have just spent the last few days absorbed in teenage basketball. I finally got to watch at least part of the girls basketball game - they were playing ABC International school in District 7, this is not to far from work or home, Josh had no soccer and I had no afternooon meetings so I raced there straight after school. At home I watched so much of the children's sport - yet here most of there sport is Thursday afternoon and between meetings after work and the fact that the distance between the schools is quite far I never seem to make anything, which I hate. I only made the last 15 minutes or so but at least that was something but I stayed and watched the boys team play, Both teams won so it was worth it.

Friday was the start of the boys championships - just down the road from our house; so I went there before the girls basketball party.

And today was the girls basketball championships. It is a round robin kind of thing, which began at 9am. I arrived right at 9am, having dropped Josh at Soccer first, and apparently missed their warm up routine which included the Nutbush dance.

They did really well, they won their first game, lost their second, this put them into a semi final which they lost so they played off for third. It was a very exciting game which they won 9-8.

It made for an exhausting day for them, and me, after a mad rush to find soccer boots for Josh we finally headed home about 4.30. All the while carting around a three year old.

Home finally, only to be invaded again by some of the basketball team, thank goodness for leftovers, they had come to watch the boys in Phu My Hung. (They lost unfortunately and one poor boy was taken off to hospital with severe cramping).

Now it's after 9 and both girls and a group of basketball players are rollerblading, ripsticking, biking to Gloria Jeans for yet more smoothie's.

I could say thank goodness for the peace and quiet but Josh and I are having some quality time watching some shoot them up movie, so there is no quiet.

While I still worry - I know they are safe, Phu My Hung is a very quiet part of Viet Nam, and they are 3 minutes from home with a lovely group of kids - what more could I ask?