Weirdest Location Ever

Landon's game on Saturday was at a field clear out in Freakin Eagle Mountain in an area I'd never been near before. I had been warned that it was far away and hard to find so Whitney and I left the house an hour early and had Google Map directions with us. We followed the directions on and on and on until it felt like we were headed to Nevada! We stayed on the road until it literally ended!! What the? Luckily I had the phone number of the dad who had taken Landon that morning and he told me it was off a dirt road near the middle school being built (which we had passed). What in the world?

It was only about a mile back from where the road ended, and it's no wonder we missed it! Good grief, it was a field in the middle of miles of sagebrush. We drove down a bumpy dirt road and parked randomly because there wasn't an actual parking lot there.

We could see the boys over the top of the sage brush, but couldn't figure out why they were planning in this remote location.

This is the school being built "nearby" but really it's pretty far away from this field in the middle of nowhere.

I think they should change the name of this area to Tinder Valley or Prickerville or Desolation.

Eventually I got over the strangeness of the location and was able to focus on the game.

Here is Landon (#0) blocking a guy so his teammate could score.

Whitney's lack of interest in the game is admirable really. Her focus on drawing is intense and rarely disturbed by the game, even when a boy on Landon's team broke his ankle right in front of us! I was traumatized by it and took pictures (for his family of course). I know this boy from school and remember all too well how awful it was when Landon broke his elbow last November. I was in tears as they carried him off the field, through the sagebrush and into the backseat of his car for a bumpy ride to the ER.