On Friday, Todd and I found out about a Labor Day 3 v 3 ultimate tournament that would be held by BYU. Since your team could be super small (3-6 players, depending on how many subs we wanted) we quickly got a team together. We invited an old friend/coach who lives in Lehi, and he brought a friend. Then we met someone at pickup on Saturday, and he brought another friend. So we ended up with 6 amazing players! We played six 30 minute games throughout the day. We lost our first game, and then fought back to win the rest of our games to qualify for the championship. Then, the team in the championship was the only one we lost to! We claimed redemption immediately, and ended up beating them 7-2. The last point was so exciting because Todd was playing, the other team had the disc and were about to score. They threw it to a wide open receiver, and Todd comes out of nowhere and gets a layout D! Then right after that our team moved it quickly and efficiently to score and win the game! Super exciting finish :). They had some jerseys and discs as prizes for winning, but all of the jerseys were women's (unfortunately for everyone on my team but me). It was cool to win those prizes and stuff, but the cooler part was getting to play some high-level ultimate. Todd and I haven't been able to do that in a looooong time.
Now, to the reason I even started this blog post... THE TRAILER! While I was in Australia, Todd didn't have much to do. To keep himself sane, he devoted his time to our rickety little trailer that we bought to tow the motorcycle to Oklahoma. If you can't tell in this pic, the wood on the deck was soooo old and falling apart. The paint job was also rusty, and extremely old looking.
Todd, with some help from his dad, ripped off the old deck, gave the trailer a nice new paint job, cut the wood to size for a new deck, stained it, and installed it. When I got back from Australia, it looked like a new trailer! Todd was hoping to get some sides up while I was gone, but ran into a roadblock. Do you see, in the picture above that black metal bar on the side that's closer to the car? Well, that bar was completely in the way for putting sides up. Todd found out that if he wanted to have the weld broken, he'd have to redo the whole deck. Not happening. So instead, Todd's dad was so kind as to help us just cut that bar off!
Todd and I came up with a plan for the sides, and went to Home Depot to get all of the wood. We stained it with the leftover stain, and cut the pieces to size. After some trial-and-error with the hardware, and a lot of help from Todd's dad, we got the sides up! The only glitch is that the frame of the trailer is pretty warped, it was when we bought it. Due to this, the deck is uneven, and the sides are not all parallel/perpendicular. If you look from the back, the railings noticeably slope to one side. It doesn't matter too much, it just gives our little trailer a little character. Anyway, here's a pic of the final product! I'm so happy with how it turned out, and now we'll be able to take a few extra things with us to Oklahoma :)
Well, now we're off! Wish us luck on our 20 hour drive, and we'll update again soon about the wondrous Oklahoma!
Oh, and one more thing. I might have mentioned in the last post that we're entering in a contest with Chaco's to win some sweet prizes. You can submit pictures or videos that feature the Chaco's. Todd and I think there would be less videos entered, and the video that won last year was LAME. So, we decided to make a video of our own to enter. Here it is!
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