This weekend there was an alumni reunion for the rugby team, which has been together since 1996 (10 years!!!). It was INSANE. I am absolutely exhausted, but it was SO much fun!
It started out Friday night, when we had team dinner in TDR with some alumni and some of the team. Usually, I eat pretty fast and get out of there - but with some of the stories being told, I was laughing so hard it was impossible to eat! I stayed for an hour and a half, then somehow ended up going over to the rugby house to help set up (which was also quite fun).
Saturday I was up at 10 to go to the pitch, where the team watched the Stinger's game before our own 2:00 match of AU ruggers vs. Alumni. We were supposed to play four 15 min quarters, but ended up only playing three (because some of the alumni are old and out of shape, and they were getting injured pretty frequently). I played wing, then fullback, then wing again and had a GREAT time - I got some nice tackles in, including a most excellent back-style running tackle (i.e. their wing had the ball and was running away, and I caught up to her from behind, grabbed her jersey and dragged her down) and one where their 8man made a breakaway and I grabbed onto her long enough to stop her (though I had help getting her all the way down). At some point I also lost a chunk out of my left knee, but it doesn't hurt very badly and I didn't even notice until after the game was over.
The weather was perfect for rugby - it had been raining for hours and hours, so the ground was nice and wet and soft with several huuuuuuuuge puddles and I got quite muddy just from tackling and rucking (I think it was the rucking that got the mud in my ears). I also found that mud puddle makes excellent hair gel - it kept all the wisps out of my face! Then at the end of the game (the alumni won - boo!), a few of us (me included) went mudsliding through the biggest puddle - and then we took a big alumni and current player photo.
After a quick break to run back to campus and shower (where I just dumped all my dirty clothes in plastic bags in a pile on the floor), we all went to the rugby house for a SOCIAL!!!
But after six hours of sleep - back up to go to the rugby house! It was supposed to be a pancake breakfast goodbye for the alumni, but not a single one showed up (all too tired - and hungover), so it ended up being just a fun bonding the team members that came before we cleaned up the house.
When the house was clean, I walked back to campus just in time to watch my wife & co. in King Lear, then grabbed a bit to eat before coming to work. I've still got awhile before I can get my exhausted ass to bed - remember those muddy clothes in plastic bags on my floor? Still there! After work, I REALLY have to go rinse and wash them.
But as exhausted as I am - it's the exhaustion that comes from a weekend of PURE AWESOME.
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