Bocce

Even though (as of July 1st) I’ve been back in Connecticut for three years, this is the first summer I’ve gotten to participate in 440’s bocce league. My first summer back, I moved here literally in the middle of the summer and the past two summers I would have had to miss too many games with my job. FINALLY now that I work normal hours, I am able to play!

We’re supposed to play each Tuesday but the weather here has been crazy so we’ve had multiple games get postponed and there’s been a few weeks where we’ve played both Tuesday and Thursday just to get all our games in. Bob updates us each week with our playing times, teams, and standings. Everybody signs up as individuals is assigned to a different group each week so people can meet each other (which is great because Matt and Ashley can’t make half the games because of work and James was signed up to play soccer).

For the first game, my team needed a sub and soccer hadn’t started yet so James subbed in and we won! My team also won the second game. For the third game, Carolyn was on my team and she was really good so was surprised when we lost…there was a guy on the other team who was REALLY good (like he hit the yellow ball with almost every throw…he was first in the league last time I saw the standings). There was one week that it rained both Tuesday AND Thursday so that week’s game was pushed to the following week…and I lost. But then I won the 5th game. Bob was on my team and we threw four points on our first turn. Going into the sixth week, Bob texted the league standings out for everybody and I was tied for third (which isn’t saying much so early in the season). My team won the 6th game AND I threw the winning ball!

I can’t wait to play again this week and for the rest of the summer. Am I a bad person to hope it rains on Tuesday when we are on vacation so that I can play on Thursday that week when we’re back?

Until our next adventure!