Bethany Soccer & Ping Pong

Our new ping pong table arrived yesterday afternoon and I was very excited about it.  We were sad to leave our pool table behind in Syracuse when we moved.  We knew that we couldn't really get one here as we would have to permanently give up our garage.  A ping pong table that had wheels and could be folded in half, however, would work perfectly.  I found one at Dick's online and everyone agreed that it would perfect for our newly painted garage.

My excitement soon waned, however.  In all of the furniture that we have put together, the table was by far the hardest.  It was heavy and had to be lifted onto the legs once the base was put together.  Doug spent about five hours on it yesterday.  I tried to help, but we eventually had to call Phil over to assist him as the table was just too heavy for me to lift.  We finally finished today and thankfully, we did not have to spend as much time on it.  Our table building experience from yesterday really helped.  Tonight we were able to put it too good use with Phil being the big winner on the evening.

Building the ping pong table yesterday wasn't all bad.  I had set up a television in the garage and we were able to tune into the IHSAA boys' soccer finals.  Bethany had made it to the championship game and we enjoyed watching it very much.  Cameron had driven to Indy to see it in person with several of his IU friends.  The game was the most exciting one that I had ever seen.  Bethany dominated the game, but couldn't score.  Forest Park put one in the net early in the second half and the Bruins didn't have an answer.  Finally, with 2:30 minutes left Bethany tied the game sending it to overtime.  The score remained 1-1 after two extra periods forcing the decision to come to penalty kicks.  Bethany had dominated in penalties this year and yesterday was no different.  Jacoby stopped the Rangers first two goals and Bethany scored four.  I was jumping up and down by the end.  It was so much fun to see a lot of the same guys that Cameron played middle school soccer with hoist the championship trophy.  He voiced the exact same opinion when he called later in the day, still excited from the win.  It was their first state championship and for us personally it made the ping pong frustrations a lot easier to handle.