Savannah

Today was full of ups and downs. The day started off good. We got up around 8ish local time and ate breakfast then went swimming. Well elinor went swimming. It was very cold water so i slowly slowly crept in and got about as far as my chest. Grandpa dipped a toe in and decided to sit and watch. After a bit dad went up to shower and change. We followed 10-15 min later. After we were all dried off and gor dressed i did elinors hair and makeup foe the hout. Dad and i wore our fancy ellagator shirts too. Then we hit the road. It was only supposed to be a 2 5 hour drive to savannah but a big traffic jam slowed us down a bit. We arrived in old savannah around 1ish and found parking. Then we had lunch. We ended up not having time for any of the ideas i researched for the afternoon so we just went for a walk along the river. Dad paid a street arrist to make a charcoal drawing of me and elinor. She did a nice job, especially with our eyes. By the time that was dobe it was time to go back to the car and head to the venue for elinor to meet up with her team. The venue was small but we good seats and elinor got geared up we watched the home team play a mixer bout befor our game started. The game didnt go very well. The team had invited us to play a level 2/new level 3 bout. So tge coaches put together a team that was mostly our smaller inexperienced girls. Unfortunately the other team fielded  a team entirely made up of veteran skaters. They were playing full contact during a light contact game. Several of our girls were injured. And most of the littles ( not ella) were too afraid to get back on the track with the bigger stonger players. So our coaches made the call and forfeited the game at half time. They tried talking to the other teams coaches to make the game safer for our level 2s but they wernt interested in a fair game. So after talking to the parwnts and the girls the call was made. We left the game early. Elinor was pretty devastated as were many of the other girls. This wonderful th8ng that they had been looking forward to for weeks turned out so sour in the end. We had planned to head home right after the bout so we skipped the impromptu pizza pool party the coaches put togther and got ready to go.  Our team captian Medusa wanted to go home too so we said yes when she asked for a ride home. Not we are stuck in traffic somewhere between macon and Atlanta. We had dinner and the girls are sleeping in the back. Dad and i are mad at the traffic. We just want to be home already!