I’m not sure how many of you have had to pay attention to youth sports lately, but before Covid-19 you could most likely find a team for your youth to join. We are almost 24 months into Covid-19 and in central Alberta we had 36, 14 year old girls trying out for 12 spots on one volleyball team. As you can imagine that leaves a bunch of girls looking for places to play. A lot of the communities these girls come from do not have gyms at the recreation facilities and with Covid-19 the school divisions have not allowed user groups to rent the gyms even though they have multigroup user agreements. Here is a look at how competitive this year is to make a team.
Just getting warmed up!
This try out was 4 hours long, it started at 10 am warm up to be competed before hand. Moving onto some rally game play.
Well, we had appointments in Edmonton, see we live 2 hours away in a small town. So, we figured let’s take full advantage and go shopping. It was only supposed to be myself and one of my daughters, but one turned to two and now here we go.
For my blog entry I am going to discuss The Princess Bride the movie which is loosely based on the book by William Goldman. I first saw this movie as child and I am not sure if it was the princess, the masked hero or the ROUS’s that hooked.
Emotional Investment and the Once upon a time….
A simple farm girl Buttercup who falls in love with the farm hand Westley, who then goes over seas to earn money and is presumed dead. Then heartbroken she vows to never love again.
The but one day….
Years pass and the prince sets his eyes on her for his bride Prince Humperdink that is. Buttercup is adored by all the commoners adore because she was one of them, her and the prince get engaged.
But then….
Following that up with a kidnapping of the princess to be, a strange, masked man coming to the rescue her and then uncovering that the masked man was no other than her Westley who not really killed overseas. He joined a pirate ship and took over for the dreaded pirates Roberts who is known to never leave survivors. The Prince was searches for his kidnapped Princess to be and chases Westley and Buttercup to the Fire Swamp forest where they cross fire shooting out of the ground, quicksand and the ROUS’s, you know the rodents of unusual size.
Fire Swamp
But then …..
Westley is capture by Princes Humoerdink and tossed into the pit of despair to be tortured and left as basically dead, so that him and Buttercup can’t be together. The kidnappers find Westley and get him brought back to life because they want helping getting into the castle and Westley needs to get in to stop Buttercup from marrying Prince Humperdink. They dress up as the great pirate Roberts to get through the gate and group of guards.
The great pirate Roberts
But then ……
They get in the castle and the knidnappers go after the castle main guard for killer his father. Westley finds Buttercup who thinks she is married but really isn’t and confines Prince Humperdink.
Until finally ….
They get out of the castle and ride off into the horizon together.
Happily ever after.
This movie hit everyone with investment it has comedy, a love story, excitement with fencing, fighting and escapes, it literally leaves no one out.
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