Campeones! Campeones! Ole Ole Ole!!!

If the title or above picture wasn't enough of a clue, Kyle's team, the NSC Minnesota Stars won the NASL (North American Soccer League) Championship! 

My flight from Minneapolis left at 7:00am on Saturday morning, arriving in Fort Lauderdale, FL at 2:41pm, with a stop in Atlanta, GA. Although lay over usually is a burden, this one wasn't. Kyle's middle brother, Kelly, whom I haven't met yet, had the same lay over to get to Fort Lauderdale to see Kyle. The catch is, I didn't know he was coming and neither did Kyle. It was kind of funny how we met actually. Kelly had walked by me waiting at the gate and saw my suitcase which had the Big Ten Women's Soccer logo. He found out from Kathy (mama Altman) that I was in Atlanta and sent me a Facebook message to call him. We chatted until our flight took off and then met Al and Kathy at our final destination.

How cute

We had a little bit of time to meet Kyle at his hotel and say hi before he had to leave for his game. He looked very focused. It was so exciting to see him in that setting. We checked into our room, in the same hotel and grabbed a bite to eat with Kelly and some of Kyle and his friends from Trinity University. Then, off to the game. Thankfully I brought my rain boots and Kathy made these personalized ponchos for all of us! She made them for us because our Altman jersey's wouldn't show with rain gear on. 

The game was thankfully pretty uneventful. Kyle played awesome. The final score was 0-0, but with the aggregate, The Stars won 3-1! 

Woo Hoo!

We had a fun time celebrating with the team and fans after the game at Champps. After Champps kicked us out, we went to some bars, where everyone was dressed up in their Halloween costumes. We all decided we were in costume as Champions!

Unfortunately my flight was at 6:00am the next morning, so I actually didn't even get a wink of sleep before Kyle got me a cab for the airport. I originally thought I would be able to fly standby on one of the six flights later in the day. But, just my luck, there was a boat show in Ft. Lauderdale last weekend too. So, all the flights were overbooked :(

This one is for you, Dirt

I pretty much slept all morning on my flights, slept when I got home, drove back to Fargo, and fell asleep. Monday was a good day at work, despite being pretty tired. I started to feel a little sore throat on Monday night and went to bed a little early. Well, if anyone remembers my blog update for my first 2 weeks in Detroit where I woke up late 2 Tuesday's in a row. Yeah.... that happened again. I woke up 10 minutes before I needed to be at work. I ended up being late, and then felt really sick the whole day. But I fought through the day because I already felt bad for being late. I got home at about 5:00pm and went to bed until 7:00pm when Laura brought me some soup. Then hopped back into bed at 8:30pm and slept until my alarm went off this morning. I woke up, wishing I didn't have to and went to work. 

Celebrating with a 7/7 in memory of Grandpa
Had an extra one for you Dad!

On another note, my favorite patient is getting discharged on Friday. He is a Latino American who suffered from a stroke, leading to right sided weakness. He has progressed so much and he is so motivated to get better, always pushing himself the extra inch. Not to mention he is hilarious and every time he laughs its contagious. I will miss him a lot and am blessed to have had such a fun and persevering patient as one of my first experiences in the rehabilitation setting.