Corpus Christi 7s

Corpus Christi 7s – July 28, 2007

Saturday dawned early with SUN! If you haven’t heard about the Central Texas weather, this wouldn’t sound very exciting. Basically it has rained 40 days and 40 nights here, all the rivers are over flowing and we have flood watches almost every day. So the fact that is actually was sunny all day in Corpus is pretty crazy.

Traci, Shalay, Amy B and I had camped out Friday night on the beach right across from where the tournament would be played the next day. We drove down late Friday night and put our tents up in the dark. The mosquito’s mistakenly thought we were a HUGE feast and pretty much ate us alive. It was late so we decided to put the tents up and hit the sack. We slept for a few hours and then were jolted awake when it started raining again, it rained like a monsoon for probably about two hours…and if you have ever slept in a tent when it is raining that hard, you know it is hard to sleep.

So I decided I couldn’t sleep anymore and I got out of the tent. The sand was so saturated that it was pooling and creating random lakes all over the beach. A HUGE lake that was about 20 feet by 10 feet had developed right by Shalay and Amy’s tent…the moonlight bouncing off the rippling water was amazing.

At this point everyone was awake because Jake was bounding around in the tent like a crazy dog because he wanted to be outside with me. So we all woke up and then the feast began again…so we decided to drive to a gas station and get some serious bug spray this time. We also picked up some snack and headed back to the camp site. We still weren’t tired so we decided to take a walk along the ocean and check things out. Arming ourselves with bug spray and snacks we braved the elements. The DEET in the deep woods bug spray must have worked because the walk was very comfortable and beautiful!

Here’s a video of Jake chasing a ghost crab on the beach…he was very intrigued but scared of the white/transparent crab.

We finally got tired again around 4am and decided to try sleeping as it was getting cold again and the rain looked like it was coming in again. We actually slept till 8am and woke up to the Corpus Christi Rugby Team working on the pitches.

We ate breakfast and then all the teams started showing up, there were TONS of men’s teams and four women’s teams. The games were very exciting and lots of fun to watch. Its always good to see the sand flying as girls make tackles and the bare feet churn up the sand.

Women’s Bracket
1st – Corpus Christi
2nd – Alamo City
3rd – HARC
4th – Satiated Beavers

The tournament directors had assigned a referee to the women’s games but he was often late for the games and let a lot of dangerous calls go, so the for a few of the games I got be a referee. It was a lot of fun and I realized that I enjoy it.

The women’s semi-final teams decided that they wanted to play debutante style where the scrums were boat racing, line-outs were the dizzy bat and kickoffs were drunken handstands. They played about twenty minutes and it was a ton of fun! I made sure to call knock-ons that didn’t happen, improper use of the rugby ball and any other rule I could think of. It was a ton of fun!

That night we decided that we were tired of being eaten alive, sun burnt and wanted a nice clean bed. So we got a hotel room and crashed out since we hadn’t slept much the night before. It was glorious!

I will post pictures as soon as they get uploaded, Shalay and Amy Wolfrey both had cameras out there.