England over Portland

The game and tour at Stoke will be on the 28th while the 28th and 29th are the weekend of the Timber's PDL trials. I sent an email to the assistant coach asking him to give me a call so we can talk about the trials a bit further. I haven't heard from him and Stephen wanted to make plane reservations before going out of town this past weekend, so I made the choice to stay in England until the 29th and skip the Timber's PDL trials. Last year, the Yakima PDL tryouts were a waste of time, and I'm not going to spend the money to stay 2 nights in a hotel, be jetlagged, probably not be able to show my full game, and miss the weekend in England to come back to the U.S. early for the Timber's PDL trials. Sorry guys. I'll talk with them some more and hopefully they'll just let me train with the first team. Oh, and if you're wondering about the tickets, we're flying from Seattle on Sunday the 15th and arriving in Manchester the next morning via JFK. Same route coming back on Sunday the 29th. We won't get back to Walla Walla until early Monday morning after spring break. Long trip, but I'm super excited for it. Kinda wish it was March 13 right now...