Leicester Day Trip

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Leicester

Leicestershire, England

Sunday was also a day we were able to sleep in. We left for Leicester at 12. As soon as we arrived we walked around in the mall for a while before making our way towards the RUGBY stadium. That's right. I got to witness my first ever rugby game. In England. And it was awesome. I'm not going to lie, I had no idea when to cheer, nor what was going on half the time. But the strange mix of football and soccer was interesting to me. My favorite part is how they just life their teammates up to catch the ball sometimes. It's like they think "hey, the ball is a little high. No big deal, up you go. Cool. We're good now. And it's all that easy." They just pick the guy up and put him back down again so gracefully. It's incredible, you could say I'm more than a little impressed. 

Since I had no idea what was going on I had to watch the key players: bun man, half pony, long hair don't care, and pony.  (nomenclature I claim as my own, don't worry, I'm describing them based on their hair. lol.) Half pony was the captain of the home team, the Leicester Tigers. The opposing team was the Sharks, whom I was inadvertently supporting with my blue shirt, that I promptly covered up when I realized this. Dually note that it does indeed pay to do a little research before you try new things, so that maybe you can actually know what's going on and not support the wrong team... like I did. 

Our presence clearly counted as a good luck charm since the Tigers won the game 29-13. The game started out slow for the Tigers, but they pulled through at the end. I enjoyed my first rugby game, but of course my rugby buddies did help make it that way. We made our way back to the charter bus and rode back to Harlaxton. The night ended with a late night rehearsal for Cinderella. (Performances started the week after...more to come on this in future posts!) And thus ended another day in the life of Kate Miller. I thought it was pretty good. But I may be a bit biased. ;)