Polo and Missy's Visit

Since Dad requested that one of us report back on this weekend (and I haven't posted in awhile anyways), I thought I'd oblige him :) The weekend went really well. Missy got in Satuday afternoon, but because it gets dark so early we didn't have time to see any of campus before heading out to dinner. Sunday morning we awoke to find that it was snowing! Despite the snow we walked around campus and I got to tell Missy some of the stories about the campus while admiring the architecture. After that I had to go join my team for our team brunch and organize the tacking and game prep.
The game itself was amazing! We played the University of Connecticut women who are the current reigning national champs (and did not graduate a single player from that team). These girls are the team to beat this year and we came incredibly close, eventually losing by only 2 points. Despite having lost, we feel really good about our performance and are now super optimistic about the rest of our season. The only downer to the game was that one of my favorite ponies went lame halfway through the game and I had to play another horse instead with an unfortunate lack of brakes or steering.
All in all it was a great weekend. It was so nice to see Missy and to have her there cheering me on for such an awesome game. There are a lot more home games next semester to come watch and we should also be heading down to UVa at some point to play them. When I get a date for that game I'll let everyone know.