RSL Game

If you can’t already tell, Layton is a huge fan of soccer and in marrying him, my inner soccer fan came out.  I had no idea I would like watching it so much.  Of course Layton is super stoked about the fact that we have our own MLS (major league soccer) team right here in the Salt Lake Valley, so we try to go to a couple of games a year.  The tickets can be a bit pricey so we don’t go as often as we’d like, but we’re considering a season pass since we love it so much.

I love how well supported our Real Salt Lake team is! I am honestly surprised at how much people love them, it’s super great.  Whenever I go to a game, the energy is so contagious, you really can’t help but get into the game and scream, jump on your feet and boo when something doesn’t go our way.  

Layton planned a game for us and his family to go to and it ended up being a couple of days before the 24^th of July so there were even fireworks afterwards.  That’s one of my favorite things, going to an event and then having a fireworks show afterwards.  We played Sporting Kansas City and boy, it was a dirty game.  It definitely seemed that the ref favored Kansas City and they fell and flopped like 15 times whereas we had men down maybe twice.  We were all screaming and on our feet a good chunk of the time and even though it seemed unfair, it was so fun to have an intense game! RSL played their hearts out! They worked so hard and played magnificently.  We scored a spectacular goal but unfortunately fouled on of Kansas’ players in the goal box which = penalty kick which they scored.  Unfortunately it ended in a 1-1 tie.  It was sad since we played better and harder, but it was fun to be at such an intense game.

The fireworks after were spectacular and I am once again grateful to live in a free nation.  The 24^th is celebrated here as Pioneer Day.  We celebrate our pioneer ancestors crossing from the East to the West and establishing what is so much of what West America is today and especially Salt Lake City.  They worked so hard and gave up so much and I now live in such a beautiful place to which I owe them so much.