Well Saturday was a fun day that required a ton of exercise on the pickle ball court at the Seminole Rec from 8 until close to 12:30. More on that later but I started the day with a before 6 roll out to my usual morning routines that start with some quiet time to honor my LORD, give thanks for another day and to lift up several by name for comfort and healing. All seem to be holding with this post. I headed out on my bike to the Rec for the second annual holiday pickle ball tournament along with 9 other teams of two and some spectators.
I was matched up with another 77 year fellow by the name of Paul who ask me a couple weeks ago to play with him in this event and while I like to play everyday sometimes in tournaments you work too hard that may take away from every bday play; but I agreed never thinking we had a chance to win especially after losing the first match in a close score. We moved into the losers bracket. We had to wait close to an hour before we ever got back on the court which had three nets set up for play, so there was action going on while we were getting stiff waiting.
We got back on the courts and played a couple of really good tennis players who have played together for 40 years and were in our age bracket and who we have played against a couple of times. Well we won that match then moved onto another match right away and then into another match against a couple of women who were very good as well, but we managed to beat them in a close match and then we had to play a very good team of young fellows who had lost to the dad and son team who was beating everybody by huge margins. Well we managed to beat these young fellows and then it was time to play the unbeaten team. The son is a 40 year old professional stunt man for Hollywood movies and his dad was once a racketball champion. They were beating everyone and while we knew the dad who plays with us regularily we had never met the son who lives in Orlando. He was a ringer alright and very fit and made unbelievable shots.
We won the first set to everybody's surprise and we had the crowd behind because we were told we had no chance as they beat everyone with big scores and the team that beat us for our first lost got beat 11-3 by them. Well little did they know or even consider a victory for us but we beat them two sets in a row and had to play them again for the championship because we had lost one match and now they suffered their first loss. They initially took the lead but we rallied and and won big in the final set and walked away with the victory. What fun but we were whupped to say the least and I'm a little stiff and sore this morning.
Today is church day and then we volunteered for the event called winterfest at church this evening which is a community event for families as we bring the gospel message in a nativity scene and share some fun things for kids, LATER
