Weekly Blog - 11/10

This week we were told to write about whatever we wanted on our blog, and the first thing that I could think of to write about was our trip this past weekend to go see my brother wrestle in Oklahoma City. My brother is not only my brother, but he's also my best friend that I know for a fact I would be lost without. Two years ago he graduated from high school and then left to for college all the way in Missouri on a full ride for wrestling. This was very exciting for him because wrestling is all he's ever done his entire life, and to see that pay off and get him into college was a great accomplishment. His grades were never good and he had to depend on his sport to get him to college, and it worked for him. When you wrestle in college you don't get as many breaks to come home as you do for other sports or if you were just going to college for education purposes. Last year, his freshman year in college, he red shirted and just wrestled as a member of the team but he wasn't actually on the line up. Since he wasn't actually a part of the line up, he was able to come home for every holiday and I didn't miss him as much as I do this year. This year he made the line up and is actually wrestling a part of the team, so he doesn't get to come home as often. Also, we haven't seen him wrestle as a college wrestler yet, or really at all in two years. So we hopped on a plane and went to go see him at one of his tournaments. 

Since there isn't any major airports in Oklahoma, we had to fly into Dallas, Texas, and then drive about three hours to Oklahoma City. Once we got to Oklahoma City it was about six or seven o'clock at night. We checked into our hotel and got ready for bed because we had a long day ahead of us the next day. Turns out that the hotel that we checked into had a broken heater so we were stuck with just our jackets and blankets to keep us warm. It's a lot colder in Oklahoma City then it is in Florida so to say that we were a little cold would be an understatement. The next day was spent watching my brother at his wrestling tournament where he ended up going 3-2, which means that he won three and lost two. He had to wrestle a weight class heavier then what he weighs so the kids were bigger than him so it made it harder for him to win. The next day we had to get up really early and drive back to the airport to fly back home. 

The trip was pretty exhausting because I slept through five different alarms that I made to get up for school the next day. I ended up not going to school and just resting to get ready for the next day of school. All in all the trip was 100% worth it because I got to see my brother, or my long lost best friend. It was really great to get to talk to him and see him after not being able to for a really long time. Even though it was only a couple day trip, it meant a lot to me because I got to see my brother wrestle and I got to talk with him and catch up on things that we have been missing out on about each other.