Tic Tac Toe, Three in a Row

Been a long couple of weeks so let's get to it! After the big win against our rival, we played on Friday against the team with the best record in the league at home. We came out on fire! Nothing makes you appreciate playing at home more than a 24 hour bus trip, I tell you. Before you knew it, we were up 20 points with one quarter to play. But because they are a good team, they did not give up. They came all the way to within 4 with a couple of minutes left. And then we all witnessed the biggest play of our season; a player from their team drove to the goal, one of my teammates stepped in front, the referee blew his whistle and the ball went in the basket. I was elated when I saw the ref pump his fist in the other direction and call a charge! (From my angle it looked like a block, but when I watched it on film, it was a good call. Whew!) The player had committed his 5th foul, was outraged at the call, and picked up two technical fouls. Game. Set. Match. My teammate definitely had huevos!


Sunday. Next Game. There was a referee that just had it out for me. He called every one of my 4 fouls (I disagreed with every single one of them. Nothing makes you improve your Spanish faster than trying to plead your case to a ref.) and limited me to 20 minutes that game. BUT, we won. All that matters. That's three in a row!...but that's not what the title is referring to.


We had a quick turnaround with road games Wednesday and Friday. Bus trip! (Round trip to 2 destinations and back home was 24 hours. Still can't believe I did that in one sitting.) 


We were going to into the perfect situation; we were confident having won 3 games in a row and we were playing one of the last place teams which had recently changed coaches. But like a dog backed in a corner, they rallied, fought, and beat us. 


Speaking of dogs, after the game I walked into the restaurant minding my own business. I pulled out my chair INSIDE the restaurant and then a dog ran across my foot! I have never been so close to screaming like a girl because that was the last thing I expected. However, I am a manly man and I held the scream, it definitely caused a reaction though and my teammates loved it.


Friday. We had to play a team that was only a half game behind us. Huge! We stayed in the nicest hotel I've stayed at since I've been here in Argentina. Apparently it is owned by Manu Ginobli! (I dislike him a little bit less now haha). Even the seats at the gym were comfortable...

Could've used these my first 3 years
at Virginia..I'm just saying

Oh yeah. For the title. So as we were leaving for the game, we go outside and find out that our bus is broken down. Tic Tac Toe, Three in a Row. Three road trips in a row that we've had our bus break down. Carpool to the game!


Unfortunately, we came up short again. Oh the road woes. Luckily, we are still in 10th place and we have two more games coming up tomorrow, 8 total. MARCH MADNESS.


And now what you've all been waiting for... BABY TIME.

She can't walk on her own yet but...

If you haven't figured it out by now, I love babies!