It's Lacrosse, Sweetie!

     A new experience for me today.  This morning I attended my first Lacrosse game.  Jake has played on a local team for 3 years.  The day was chill for the PNW but the game was exciting, especially since Jake's team won.

 

 

 

Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin, as early as the 12th century AD, played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick. It is a contact sport which requires padding such as shoulder pads, gloves, helmets, elbow pads, and sometimes rib guards. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh designed to catch and hold the lacrosse ball and can also be strung with hard mesh. There are many different styles like Canadian mesh, rocket pocket and normal mesh. Offensively, the objective of the game is to score by shooting the ball into an opponent's goal, using the lacrosse stick to catch, carry, and pass the ball to do so. Defensively, the objective is to keep the opposing team from scoring and to dispossess them of the ball through the use of stick checking and body contact or positioning. The sport has four major types: men's field lacrosse, women's lacrosse, box lacrosse and intercrosse.

     I spent the rest of the day with the Millers, enjoying a nap and then out to dinner and a movie with Micaela in honor of her B-day in February.  We had a yummy salad, soup, bread sticks, pasta AND dessert at Olive Garden and then on to the movies.  We viewed "42", story of Jackie Robinson, the first African American baseball player.  Very good and inspiring.
    The entire day was enjoyable as I was in a cheerful, happy mood.  Angie says, "Grandma, I like it when you are in a fun mood."

 

    This has been a good "first Lacrosse game"/ Micaela day in the life of Grandma G.

      "Then our sons in their youth will be like well nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace."  (Psalms 144: 12)