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Wednesday, December 13, 2017

The adventure to Latitude

So normal day and all but then out of the blue we decide to go to Latitude to play soccer.
Now you might be thinking why would I all of a sudden want to go to Latitude to play soccer, well is starts like this.
London, Skye(with an E at the end, she always makes a big deal if someone spells it without an E), Ian,(who were home taught) and Mom were off to a trip to go to play soccer at the Triton high school.There was snow outside and London's breath fogged up the window he was looking out of, he really hoped that there wouldn't be snow on Triton's turf soccer field so he could use his new ball he had just got from Dick's sporting goods store. He was twelve years old and loved playing soccer, his older brother Ian was fourteen years old and he really liked drawing and was really good at it, (He also played keeper for when  London wanted to practice his shot) Skye on the other hand had a passion for animals! She had 87 to be precise  (47 of which were her chickens) She had chickens, bunnies, geckos, birds you name it (she was also ten years old the youngest in the family). And their mom was a very nice woman who had a knack for cooking the best meals, and also was a professional photographer! She sold her art for quite a bit of money. "Were a couple of minutes away kids" said Mom "London you might want to get your shoes on now" she said while narrowly avoiding a crazy driver that was on his phone, "I already have them on mom" said London who had a fair amount of soccer shoes. They drove up to the soccer field and to their utter dismay the field was covered in snow. "Noo!" cried London he felt awful he had waited all morning to come here and now it was covered in snow. "Well to bad guys," said mom "Let's go swing by and get the raw milk for Colby's farm" (they were a very healthy family and they liked raw milk a lot!) "But mom" whined London "Can we please go to Latitude then?" (latitude was forty minutes from their house and it was almost lunchtime so everyone was pretty hungry) "Honey I am really hungry right now, maybe tomorrow" said mom who was truly hungry and wanted to go home. London just sat in his seat folded his arms and didn't say a word. 

Once they had arrived to Colby's farm and got the raw milk London's toes were getting pretty cold and he kept them by the heater of the car. On their way home though London kept persisting to go to Latitude, but mom kept saying that "We don't have membership there and I wont just drive for forty minutes just for them to say, you don't have membership you can't go play" So London had to settle for playing at Triton in the snow for half of an hour, even though Skye kept saying "Mommy please I don't want to go please!!". They went back to the high school to play soccer in the snow, now you might think this sounds fun (and it is with snow boots and snow pants) but London had been wanting to do knuckle shots on a perfect turf surface, so when he walked up to the snow and found that when the ball rolled on the wet snow it stuck to the ball and it was very heavy and he couldn't shoot it it was not fun at all.When he walked back to the car where Skye and Mom waited with the heat running.London had Ian put the ball in the back of the car and slammed the cars door when he went in, he was really vexed at how bad it had been. 

The atmosphere in the car on the way back home was full of tension because of London's bad mood.When they got home London didn't do much and just wanted the next day to come. When dad came home he was not as happy as he usually was.When he went to bed that night all he could think about was hitting the perfect knuckle balls at Latitude, his mom had told him that he could go to Latitude if he did his touches routine that morning.

When he woke up the next morning his clock showed 3:24 AM "Seriously" thought London and went back to bed but this time set an alarm on his clock for 7 AM (he could do this because he was home taught) and went back to bed.

DING!DING!DING!DING! DING!DING!DING!DING! DING!DING!DING!DING! was the sound that the alarm clock made at exactly 7:00 AM London jumped out of bed and ran downstairs as if it were Christmas morning. Mom and Ian were out running.
London opened the door of the kitchen and a gust of wind caught him by surprise and blew him back into the house, it was freezing cold and the door banged against the wall "Crapit" yelled London who had fallen hard on his back.He rushed to shut the door before it hit the wall again. He wondered how on earth Mom and Ian were running in this gelid weather. He went to the room to do his touches and started doing them with some music. He did his Bobbles, his Toe taps, his Triangle touches, and his passing. Once he was done he had that good feeling once you have done something hard and you can go and do the thing that you really wanted to do after, like going to do knuckle balls at latitude for example. SO they ate breakfast and mom called Latitude to see if anyone else was playing there so we could go play. The lady said "Oh no, no one is playing at this moment" how she said that it sounded like no one was playing but someone could pop up in a few minutes and start playing there. So mom said "Has anyone booked the field? Because if they haven't then we would like to go play there" "No, no one has booked it" said the ladies voice through the phone "do you want to book it?"
Mom said No but the lady insisted "No one is playing there you can book it" so mom just hung up on her. London started laughing and said "Atta' girl mom" they did a fist bump and did that thing with you fingers from big hero six.

Later that day they were driving to latitude and making the plan on how to get into latitude without them asking "do you have your card with you?" London thought back to when they had played at latitude on a Friday. They had been carrying soccer bags and looked pretty professional at the time. They had gotten through without a word from the lady who was at the front desk.
They decided that they were going to go in with the soccer bag, then if they asked them if they had there card we would just say "oh we have soccer" So when they got there they put the balls in the bag and the cleats. then they tried to walk in with someone else but there was no one else around. So they braved it and walked into the doors. Skye was nervous and clung to mom. The warm air hit their faces and everyone sighed(It was really cold outside)"The lady at the desk turned toward us with a red hot stare" London later recounted mom casually said "we're here for soccer" the lady's stare changed to a nicer face and said quickly "OK" though she looked a little unsure. We rushed up the stairs and once we were far enough away that no one could hear us we couldn't hide our jubilation, Skye was the first to shout a cry of triumph everyone was so joyful! London got to the doors first and opened them. He walked inside, it was a pretty good sized field with U-12 soccer nets to shoot on.