Spring Break

Over spring break I went to Tampa, Florida. Now you may be saying oh your so lucky, but it wasnt a normal vacation. I went to play ball! The softball team goes every other year to Florida to play some good softball. Its basicly our spring training. The coavches pick 24 girls to go. In about December my coach told me I was going to be going. I was so excited. The sasturday after school got out we had to be at the 4:30 a.m.! I was so tired, I slep the whole first flight. I roomed with Lydia Kruse, Sarah Seidel, and Hannah Smith. Our room was the best room ever. We all got along and there was never once drama in our room. Our room over looked the bay and it was soo pretty. We sat out on the balcony and saw sting rays just swim in the water. It was amazing! The rest of the day Saterday we went to the pool and played beach volleyball in the sand pit they had at the hotel. Sunday we had practice at 8:30 a.m. till 12. The head and humidity was a huge wake up call. The rest of they day we layed out and chilled. The rest of the week we had practice from 8:30 untill 12. Let me tell you, you had better not of slacked off one bit or we would of been running. At nights we had games. Our coach said we are expected to win, if we dont you better of given it your all. The JV team had 3 games and the varsity had 5. Our first game vs. Port Charlott we got half a game in and it was rained out. we were up by a ton too! The Varsity got half a game in and then it was rained out too. We were all soaked and had to drive 2 hours back soaking wet. JV ended up playing 1 1/2 games and won them. Varsity went 2-1. Thursday they called for heavy rain and huge storms. IT had rained over night way too much for us to practice on the fields. We ended up setting our hitting stations up in the hotel parking lot with wiffel balls.  We would never skip practice. Our game was cancelled that night. That day there was huge storms and a tornado right across the bay and a building collapsed 2 miles away from us. It was kind of scary. We got to go the the mall and chill out. We had been so tired, to just chilled felt amazing. the next Saturday after practice we showerd and chilled out by the pool. Everything was packed in the van on the way back to Ohio, so no one had sunscrean. I layed out for 3 hours and got soo burnt. I came back looking like a burn victom. It was so bad. Although it was an amazing expierience. I would do it again in a heart beat