Day 24– July 23, 2005, Saturday: The Pain Magnet; like father like son

Here is a shot of Jessika playing soccer with Meg (from NZ). Jessie is a real power kicker. On the right is Jonny with his buddy Meeka (from Finland)

We started off with biscuits and gravy with sausage for breakfast. I enjoyed it. I had to laugh at our friends from down under. They didn’t know what to do with it. They saw the gravy and couldn’t tell what it was and they didn’t dare put it on their scones (biscuits).

After breakfast began the first of Jonny’s pain for the day. We went to the basketball court to shoot some hoops. After about a half hour and some close calls, Jonny finally got hit. The ball hit him hard enough in the head to knock him off his feet. He got really close to hitting his head on the concrete on the way down, but avoided it. After crying for a few minutes he was anxious to get back into the action. Only to receive one more blow to the head (that’s 2 for now). But, once again, he got up.

Jonny was kind of done in though, being tired and hungry and aching, so we went home and took a nap and had lunch. We then walked about 10 minutes to the closest movie theater. They have movies about a month old for $2.50 each. We saw Madagascar. It was nice to sit in air conditioning for a few hours. We actually got cold and looked forward to the heat when it was over.

Now for more pain for the boy. This time we went up to the soccer field to kick a ball around. We scraped up about 10 people and played a bit. Even before we started, Jonny took a hard hit straight to (you guessed it) his head. Again sending him off his feet. Mommy was there to tend to him this time, and he was back up ready for more action in no time. Less than a minute later, the ball came about 3 inches from his head. Close call. Then, the fourth hit. He is a glutton for pain. Just like his daddy. He loves to play, but sacrifices his body for the good of the game. Later I pulled my hamstring a little just to save a goal in a game where we weren’t even keeping score. I’d do it again though, and I imagine that Jonny would too.

Then we all cooled down in the pool. Ahhhhh. Did I mention that we had an awesome sunset?