Kickball – Idaho Style

We here at Mountain Adventure Tours like to stay active in our local community, and we like to give our time to worthy causes.  This is why for the past many years, we have put on a Kickball tournament in conjunction with Sun Valley Adaptive Sports, to raise money for their program.

Each year has a different theme.  This years theme:

“Around the World”

Each team picked a country, and dressed up as citizens of that country.  While this is certainly fodder for grandiose stereotyping, we did our best to keep it tasteful.

Mountain Adventure Tours picked Japan.  This was very welcome news to me, as one of my friends here donated a full leather samurai outfit straight from the actual set of Xena: Warrior Princess.  I don’t want to brag or anything, but I was TOTALLY the best dressed at the tournament.  Many thanks to Michele for the costume.  Though we won’t get into why she had it in the first place…

Each team had to have both men and women, as well as at least two kids.  Being a kids camp, we had a plethora of tiny humans play on our team on and off throughout the day.  While some may suspect this would cost us on the scoreboard, let me just say that the rest of our team made sure to play hard when it came down to it, to ensure we stayed competitive.

We came in 2nd place, losing only to a team whose two “kids” were 12 and 14, and one of them is ranked 5th in the nation for downhill skiiing.  Not exactly on par with our 5 year olds who still didn’t know where first or second base was.  (Both on the field and up the shirt)

We played hard, stayed true to our Japanese stereotypes, doing flying kicks and making ninja noises at every opportune moment.

Afterwards, we went swimming in a river, had some champagne (of the MGD variety) and hung out until the sun went down.  It was the definition of a great day.

Thanks again to Michele, not only for the samurai costume and wooden Katana blade, but also for taking 90% of these photos for us.

Enjoy!

-JoeySee