Nothing like Dutch Oven Food

I'm going to start with my chief complaint about today—I rolled my ankle again. This time, it's pretty bad. It's very swollen right now and it hurts to walk or stand on it. Yes, I know it's my fault and I should really be taking athletics a lot more slowly for a while, but that would require common sense and I have none. But I digress, there was much that happened today that didn't revolve around the ankle, including pick-up Ultimate this morning, which went pretty well once we found an open field at DT. I guess we got to Kiwanis too late or something. Anyways, it was great weather—lost of cloud cover and intermittent sprinkles, but not too cold. Maybe a little windy, but not enough to keep things from being fun. This weather lasted into the afternoon, when we had the ward BBQ at South Fork. Actually, there it was a little more extreme. It would rain pretty hard for 5 minutes, clear up for half an hour, then rain pretty hard again. But it was a rather successful BBQ. We had over 50 people there. The Bishop and his brother made some great dutch oven veggies and chicken. Not to mention my spinach salad (okay, there were other good salads there too). And then we played volleyball (with my volleyball set) and horseshoes and frisbee. Actually, I just threw around a Frisbee with Angela, Tina, and Elena. This was my mistake, because if I had been playing volleyball, I probably never would have gotten sucked into an Ultimate Frisbee challenge against another ward. The other ward had one fairly skilled player, and a lot of athleticism, whereas we didn't have as much (at least not playing Frisbee), so I felt obliged to play all out. Which would have worked had I not rolled my ankle while chasing down the disc as it rebounded off my block of a very deep pass. Oh well, at least I rolled it doing something cool this time. But for ward ultimate? I was so mad at myself. I had thought "well, this should be light and carefree" and then I go and roll my ankle. Well, I tried to keep playing for the pride of the ward, but it all went downhill. All I could do was walk. Although I did throw some pretty nice hammers to Angela, who they kept leaving wide open in the endzone. Anyway, I wasn't the only injured one on the field. Both Elena and Jared went down with ankle injuries, so if you count Andy, we were one really crippled ward at the end of the day. Afterwards, a big group of us (15 people or so) went to go see Shrek 2. Everyone says it was funnier than the first, but I think they're about even. There were some funny things, but there weren't any really pro-longed gags that had me busting my gut. Then after that we went over to Sharolyn's and sang Karaoke into the wee hours of the morning.

Posted May 22, 2004 (11:37 PM) | Comments (1)