USA Cup Soccer

We went to Bloomington, Minnesota for the Target USA Cup Soccer tournament for Grayson's club soccer team.  It was a week long tournament, but we only had one game per day which left us lots of free time.  We spent three days at Mall of America at the amusement park and the boys loved having the unlimited ride option.  We went to an MLS game one night and watched the Minnesota United FC game.  It was such a fun experience for the boys.  We also went to a Minnesota Twins game when they played the Chicago White Sox and it happened to be the game when the Sox hit a grand slam.  We also spent time at the hotel hanging out with other players and their families.  We brought Maddox with us on this trip because his family couldn't make the trip.  The boys had fun together decorating the signs for the opening ceremonies, but unfortunately the weather did not cooperate and they had to cancel it.  Craig, Liam and I had to take cover under the stadium while the storm blew over.  The boys had a lot of fun trading pins with other club soccer teams and came home with around 20 pins from other teams.  The boys played really well and made it pretty far, but lost to a team from Canada.  The other team had mostly 9 year olds playing while our team had 2 9 year olds, several 8 year olds along with many kids that were 7 and 6 year olds (players from the 2013 team: 3, players from 2014 and 2015: the rest).  The boys had a great time and it was such a fun experience.  We can't wait until next year and hopefully will have a team full of 2013 players.