Are you ready for some more Nationals adventures?! (If not...too bad!)
We woke up today at 8 am (Dani's rules) . Carolyn and Amanda were the last ones to show up... big surprise. Dani immediately had something to yell about.... "Carolyn where are your SHOES?". So anyway we had some yummy continental breakfast. Actually, it was more like a bagel and ONE piece of toast in a vacuumed sealed bag. Odd we know! We discussed chunky yogurt and how Carolyn never ate chunky applesauce. We talked with the hotel staff about green beer day. This is the guy that told us about the bars opening at 5:30 am! Then we headed back to our rooms to hang out until it was time to take a field trip to the pool.
Now on to the more exciting part of the day. We drove over to the pool and on our way in ran into a few of the Kenyon ladies, so Dani was really excited. Pretty much everywhere we went this morning we ran into people Dani knew. So basically we stopped every 5 SECONDS, accompanied by little girlish squeals and screams of excitement, and lots of hugging. The pool is amazing! It's huge! We were taking pictures like crazy of the pool and the podium and one of the other coaches was talking to Dani and was like, "uh, first timers?" I guess we were pretty obvious. We got special VIP passes so that we can get onto the pool deck. They have this lady that is like the bouncer for the pool. (Her muscles might have been bigger than Amanda's.....hahah yeah right) She checks everyone's passes extremely closely. So don't try to make a fake!
We also got all of our free stuff! We got these really nice backpacks that have the strap that crosses over your chest. We also got a quad chair, as Sarah would call it, with a foot rest that folds up nicely into a bag. (Which by the way we set up camp in our hotel room with). We got a lanyard and a program of the meet.
Once we got our feel of the pool, we drove around campus a little more..more like another half-hour trapped in BIG BERTHA (our van), looking for a place to eat and checked out all the Greek homes, which by the way have some pretty interesting names. We found a little BBQ place called 'The Smokin' O ', that was really pretty delicious and filling. The host put us down in the basement by ourselves to eat... I think he knew we were going to be too loud. Lunch was quite entertaining. Alyssa could barely take a bite of food without nearly choking on it because she was laughing so hard. Sarah didn't feel well so she was crabby and not really talkative. Amanda was too interested in the basketball game on TV and too hungry to entertain us. Michelle had almost an entire chicken on her plate as her meal. We also found out that Michelle got kicked out of ballet class when she was four because she would go off into the corner and do her own dances and not listen to the teacher. Don't ask her about it though, it's too traumatic.
So after our small adventure on the town of Oxford, we came back to the Sycamore Inn/ Best Western and did ABSOLUTELY nothing. Carolyn talked to every single one of her friends on the computer as Amanda tried to sleep through the clattering of her fingers on the keyboard. We don't know what everyone else did....okay we lied. Sarah, Alyssa, and Michelle all got done up for our team photo at 3. Carolyn and Amanda didn't care what they looked like so they threw up their hair, and put on the same shirts as the rest of the girls so we would look halfway decent for the team picture.
We arrived back at the GINORMOUS pool and decided we could possibly get in and do a few laps of doggie paddle and such. P.S. The water temperature was about 60 degrees- cold enough to grow back all the leg and arm hair we had just shaved off. To quote Alyssa, "This pool makes me feel insignificant" because the lanes were so huge. Not to mention the gutters were huge as well. So big a "baby could fall through and get trapped, except for the babies with extremely large heads" -Amanda. From there, we met Dani's friend Julio who thought we were extremely funny and entertaining but Dani would like to think otherwise (annoying). Then we headed back to the BW.
We all got ready in our most fabulous black dress wear, put on some make-up and some high heeled shoes. Dani had on red high heels, "Oh you can watch me walk if you want to, want to I’ll bet you want me back now don’t you, don’t you I’m about to show you just how missin’ me feels In my red high heels " We got to dinner pretty early, a little to0 early, like 20 minutes too early, to take lots of pictures. When they opened the doors for us to pick our tables, we pushed Michelle through the crowd so she could run and save us a table. But in actuality, we should have made Dani do it because she's "small and stealth." So basically, it was a normal dinner. Buffet style and delicious. Complete with cheesecake for dessert. We spotted Sasquatch... she was about 6'8" with red hair. Then we left. And now we are back in our hotel resting for the first day of prelims tomorrow.
Signing off,
C-Rizz and Eighdolla holla
Next on the agenda, stories of drunken college students on Miami's campus.
P.S. Amanda won the dinner eating contest... even though it wasn't a contest, she still won.
P.S.S. As we were driving back from dinner, Amanda and Sue had a short convo:
Amanda, "If I were driving right now, I would honk and wave at every single person I saw."
Sue, "I bet you would."
P.S.S.S. The weather here is like springtime.
P.S.S.S.S. The End
We woke up today at 8 am (Dani's rules) . Carolyn and Amanda were the last ones to show up... big surprise. Dani immediately had something to yell about.... "Carolyn where are your SHOES?". So anyway we had some yummy continental breakfast. Actually, it was more like a bagel and ONE piece of toast in a vacuumed sealed bag. Odd we know! We discussed chunky yogurt and how Carolyn never ate chunky applesauce. We talked with the hotel staff about green beer day. This is the guy that told us about the bars opening at 5:30 am! Then we headed back to our rooms to hang out until it was time to take a field trip to the pool.
Now on to the more exciting part of the day. We drove over to the pool and on our way in ran into a few of the Kenyon ladies, so Dani was really excited. Pretty much everywhere we went this morning we ran into people Dani knew. So basically we stopped every 5 SECONDS, accompanied by little girlish squeals and screams of excitement, and lots of hugging. The pool is amazing! It's huge! We were taking pictures like crazy of the pool and the podium and one of the other coaches was talking to Dani and was like, "uh, first timers?" I guess we were pretty obvious. We got special VIP passes so that we can get onto the pool deck. They have this lady that is like the bouncer for the pool. (Her muscles might have been bigger than Amanda's.....hahah yeah right) She checks everyone's passes extremely closely. So don't try to make a fake!
We also got all of our free stuff! We got these really nice backpacks that have the strap that crosses over your chest. We also got a quad chair, as Sarah would call it, with a foot rest that folds up nicely into a bag. (Which by the way we set up camp in our hotel room with). We got a lanyard and a program of the meet.
Once we got our feel of the pool, we drove around campus a little more..more like another half-hour trapped in BIG BERTHA (our van), looking for a place to eat and checked out all the Greek homes, which by the way have some pretty interesting names. We found a little BBQ place called 'The Smokin' O ', that was really pretty delicious and filling. The host put us down in the basement by ourselves to eat... I think he knew we were going to be too loud. Lunch was quite entertaining. Alyssa could barely take a bite of food without nearly choking on it because she was laughing so hard. Sarah didn't feel well so she was crabby and not really talkative. Amanda was too interested in the basketball game on TV and too hungry to entertain us. Michelle had almost an entire chicken on her plate as her meal. We also found out that Michelle got kicked out of ballet class when she was four because she would go off into the corner and do her own dances and not listen to the teacher. Don't ask her about it though, it's too traumatic.
So after our small adventure on the town of Oxford, we came back to the Sycamore Inn/ Best Western and did ABSOLUTELY nothing. Carolyn talked to every single one of her friends on the computer as Amanda tried to sleep through the clattering of her fingers on the keyboard. We don't know what everyone else did....okay we lied. Sarah, Alyssa, and Michelle all got done up for our team photo at 3. Carolyn and Amanda didn't care what they looked like so they threw up their hair, and put on the same shirts as the rest of the girls so we would look halfway decent for the team picture.
We arrived back at the GINORMOUS pool and decided we could possibly get in and do a few laps of doggie paddle and such. P.S. The water temperature was about 60 degrees- cold enough to grow back all the leg and arm hair we had just shaved off. To quote Alyssa, "This pool makes me feel insignificant" because the lanes were so huge. Not to mention the gutters were huge as well. So big a "baby could fall through and get trapped, except for the babies with extremely large heads" -Amanda. From there, we met Dani's friend Julio who thought we were extremely funny and entertaining but Dani would like to think otherwise (annoying). Then we headed back to the BW.
We all got ready in our most fabulous black dress wear, put on some make-up and some high heeled shoes. Dani had on red high heels, "Oh you can watch me walk if you want to, want to I’ll bet you want me back now don’t you, don’t you I’m about to show you just how missin’ me feels In my red high heels " We got to dinner pretty early, a little to0 early, like 20 minutes too early, to take lots of pictures. When they opened the doors for us to pick our tables, we pushed Michelle through the crowd so she could run and save us a table. But in actuality, we should have made Dani do it because she's "small and stealth." So basically, it was a normal dinner. Buffet style and delicious. Complete with cheesecake for dessert. We spotted Sasquatch... she was about 6'8" with red hair. Then we left. And now we are back in our hotel resting for the first day of prelims tomorrow.
Signing off,
C-Rizz and Eighdolla holla
Next on the agenda, stories of drunken college students on Miami's campus.
P.S. Amanda won the dinner eating contest... even though it wasn't a contest, she still won.
P.S.S. As we were driving back from dinner, Amanda and Sue had a short convo:
Amanda, "If I were driving right now, I would honk and wave at every single person I saw."
Sue, "I bet you would."
P.S.S.S. The weather here is like springtime.
P.S.S.S.S. The End
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