The Beach in the Fall

Chris and I spent this weekend (friday to sunday night) in Punta Umbria, a beach town in the very southwest of Spain. We played in our second frisbee tournament with the Madrid team, Los Quijotes. It was pretty amazing. The weather was beautiful (21 C which is warm enough for no shirt and tanning the hams) and the company was even better. The tournament was the Spanish national championship for Open (men only ironically) and Women so our women's team was there too.

We drove down in a rental car driven by a German named Chris. German Chris is quite a character and a really jolly and fun individual. He does, however, drives like a bat out of hell. The upside to this was that we got there quickly. The downside was that I almost had to be asleep to prevent being extremely stressed out haha. Friday night was the birthday of one of our players, Juan, so we all helped him celebrate in great fashion - i.e. by playing a Venezuelan version of Thumper that involved drinking a nice helping of beer if you happened to lose. German Chris had been drinking for quite a while and was thus in even jollier spirits at this point in the night. When Britney Spears "Hit me baby one more time" came on, he just couldn't resist and he broke out in song. After these escapades, my brother says "Man is he wasted!". I quickly reply "No, he isnt that drunk at all...". As I finish the sentence, chris knocks a 40 off the table and the glass bottle shatters on the floor, making for great irony.

Throughout the tournament, we played 6 games, winning 5 of them. We played pretty well overall and ended up finishing in 3rd place. Our women's team finished in 2nd which was also pretty baller. One thing to note about the tournament was the selection of food given to us. For those of you uncultured swine, at American ultimate tournaments, the gold standard for food is bagels and peanut butter. Here in Spain, apparently, they put a Spanish twist to the tourney food. Rather than bagels, you get baguettes, and rather than peanut butter, you get assorted spanish meats and some cheese and tomatoes. I thought it was priceless.

Overall, a fantastic weekend away from the cold weather of Madrid and a great tournament. The results bode well for the Mixed (guys+girls playing together) tournament that is in 3 weeks.