This past weekend Lisa and Simon traveled to the MRISA Varsity Soccer Tournament in Burapha, Thailand to support the SSIS soccer teams. The host school, International School of the Eastern Seaboard, is a wonderful facility for soccer and located about 2 hours from Bangkok. It was unfortunate that the weather did not cooperate so that we could enjoy the full facilities of ISE.
The first day of the tournament started out beautiful, sunny, hot. But at noon it began to rain hard (which was very unusual for this time of year). After an hour of rain the fields were flooded. After another hour of pumping water from the field and using squeegee to dry the fields, play resumed but it was muddy, messy business.
Therefore, Day 2 of the tournament was moved to Planet Football which played on AstroTurf. Complete with a foot-cooling pool and four playing fields, this new facility finished the tournament in record time. The SSIS Boys and Girls both played in the Final games of the tournament. In the end both teams earned Second Place.
Simon and Lisa stayed at the Golf Resort next door to the school and had fun watching golfers (mostly from Korea) and their pink clad caddies.
