Yes I know I haven't updated since before Christmas and I am sorry for this. You ask why? Well its been a busy past few weeks. Since getting back to Iceland we have had 4 games (3 away and 1 at home) and I have taken over coaching an 8th grade girls team. The 8th grade team practices 4 times a week, which keeps me pretty busy. I am usually running from my practice to theirs every evening.
So to go back a few weeks...
I got back to Iceland on January 6th after spending about 20 days at home. My time at home went by way to fast but it was great to spend some quality time with my family and friends. My travels back to Iceland went as smooth as possible even with all the new international flight rules and extra security. I got back to Iceland at about 7am on the 6th. My plan was to go to my apartment and take a nap for a few hours and then get up and run a few errands before I went to practice. Well that plan didn't go so well when I completely slept through my alarm and didn't wake up till almost 5pm and had practice at 6. Lets just say I was lucky to wake up as I could have easily slept right through practice. Since then I have adjusted a little bit back to the time change but still not going to bed before about 2am. The good thing is I don't have to get up early and I usually sleep till about 10:45, so its really not to bad.
Like I mentioned earlier we have played 4 games since being back. We won the first game against Valur by about 20 points and I finished the game with a quadruple double. I had 25 points, 15 rebounds, 11 assists and 10 steals. The next game was against Njardvik, who had beat us earlier in OT, we won this game by almost 30! I finished the game with a triple double and had a first of my career by scoring 40 points. I also had 10 rebounds and 13 assists. After that we played away at Snaefell, which is a 3 hour bus drive and a trip I have been on too many times already. Lets just say its not one of my favorites places to travel to. But either way we were still able to pull out a 20 point win. Once again I finished the game with a triple double. To finish out the 4 games we traveled to Keflavik who we lost to earlier in the season by one. Lets just say this was our worst game of the 4 and we ended up losing. Our next game is tomorrow (Wednesday) and then we play again on Sunday in the Subway Cup semifinals.
In other news we added another player to our roster, she is from Denmark but played College basketball in the States at Dayton University. This has been a really nice addition to our team and I have really enjoyed playing with her.
Well that's an update on the Basketball aspect since I have been back in Iceland. I will post another update shortly with everything else that has been going on. I will leave you with a few pictures of the recent games...
Until next time have a great day and take care!
Welcoming the new player (Kiki Lund)
40 point game..
