Getting back in the groove

It's been a few days now and I am getting back into the routine of Parisen living. We had practice last night on the snow covered field. It was pretty intense. The closest thing I had ever seen like that was when we went up to Boise for both of the Humanitarian bowls. (...well one was the Roady's Truck Stop bowl) Anyways, the field had about a good 2 inches of snow still on it from the previous monday. However, the cadets and juniors practiced on it Tuesday so there was a nice packed ice field.

Have you ever tried holding someone back on slippery ground? Not to fun. I could have been better if I played in skates instead. I mean it was a bit different. Hopefully we won't get snow during the season. That's all I can say. But it did have it's bright spots. At the end of the practice we huddled up into offense and defense as usual and after we finished and broke down, we started packing snow balls.

Being from the coastal plains in Texas, there is not too many snow falls growing up, precisely one that I remember. So it was a pretty neat, kid-like experience to have a snowball fight. It was awesome! At one point the defense just ran over and jumped me and I got to eat a face full of snow. After wrestling them off, they then jumped on Matt P. Being that I just got to feel what it was like when a ton of guys are stuffing snow into any crevise they can find, I decided to start pulling people off. I threw someone off and the next thing I know I'm at it again wrestling with 2 defenders. Someone runs up again and stuffs snow in my eyes. (Luckily I'm not wearing my contacts thanks to AIRFRANCE losing my bag and still not being able to find it... I mean really how do you lose a bag? Will you replace it? GRRRRRR....oh and no pics/videos yet until they give me the bag that has my charger's in them....Again I appreciate it)

So I'm beat, I get up and slowly rise to my feet then WHAM! I'm pelted in the neck with a snowball from 7 yards away. It stung for a while, but it was a great experience and I'm glad we had it. It seems to me the only snowball fights I've ever had are with football teams... I had fun. Matty P got kicked in the shin, but other then that no serious injuries sustained. It was also Nida's birthday so he got it from the entire team as we sang happy birthday. I went back to the locker room with my fingers frozen because Matt and I are the only one's playing without gloves.

GOOD TIMES!