Blessed Realm

Pacifica played a water polo tournament today at Santa Ana Valley High School.  The school facilities were so much better than what Pacifica has.  I don’t get it - we’re supposed to have a well-performing school, but the school is practically falling down and the pools are 40 years out of date.  When Pacifica plays home games, we have to play at Los Alamitos military base at their awesome olympic pool since our facilities aren’t up-to-snuff.  That is fun though as sometimes a jet rips by, or somebody is out practicing guns and stuff and you hear a .50 caliber machine gun going off.  This is Luke’s last year in water polo.  He’s a senior and we’ve really enjoyed going to the games for 6 - years with him and Kevin.  The game was delayed an hour during the 2nd period because of thunder and lightning storms.  On the way to the game at 7:15am, there was freak thunderstorm that dumped rain and hail!!  We were on 405 south and everybody hit the breaks and started freaking out.  It was fun.  The hail was the size of marbles which is really, really unusual for around here.  Kept getting lightning, so we had to get everyone out of the pool at one point.  Not too safe in the water with nasty bolts of electricity falling out of the sky.  Unfortunately, they lost both games, but Luke played really well. Sept. 10, 2011