Soccer, Surf, and Journaling

I was in California this past week and I really don't want to write about it all. It was just that cool and I love that place a lot, so I'll spare you all the details. Just know that God is working on yet another batch of college kids out there this summer and they have some cool stories to bring back East. Woot! In other news, how many of you watched the USA Women's World Cup game yesterday? Holy crap, talk about a heart attack. I had about 3 of them. They beat Brazil 3-2 in penalty kicks, exactly 12 years after beating China in the 99 World Cup in penalty kicks. I remember watching that game in 99 and thinking that would be me one day. Playing in the World Cup, being as awesome as Mia Hamm, playing soccer all over the world. But I think coaching my little kids in soccer is just as cool, so it's ok. When we got to San Fran on Sunday night, the santa cruz shuttle picked us up and the driver was this really awesome ex-professional surfer named Mattie. He told us about all the places he'd surfed in the world (including the exact spot we surfed in Ireland!) but how he spent most of his life being a surf journalist. After quitting the pro world tour, he just went around to all these surfing competitions and wrote about em. After having that conversation, and being kind of obsessed with the World Cup this year, I feel like I wish I would've stuck to journalism with my career. Actually I love my current one so not really, but man I loved writing about sports. I did it all through high school and I'm constantly watching the news and reading articles and watching highlights and I don't even think about how I could actually do that with my life and make money for it. I could totally love my life going around talking to pro athletes about how awesome they are and what they do for fun and what's playing on their ipod. Just a thought. Now it's time to cheer on the women's team as they play France on Wednesday to advance to the championship. Party in the USA, girls.