longest day of my life.
games ran from 9 to 5. we planned on leaving the hotel at 630, but hil-dawg overslept, so we all just chilled in the lobby til 7 when she graced us with her presence. in her defense though, she uses her phone as an alarm clock, but her phone has gone insane and stopped working properly meaning her alarm didn't go off.
anywhoo, when we got to the fields, we set stuff up and then i joined morgan (a kick-it sponsorship intern) under the jif tent. my duties for the day were to work jif. soooooo boring. morgan is cool though, so that helped. we both almost fell asleep multiple times throughout the 8+ hours of games. ugh.
i also had to help out with juicy juice for a little while, but that was even more boring because i didn't have anyone helping me to keep me company. at one point, laura and i had to go around fixing goals and i overheard a mom say, "there goes the jif girl"
WHAT?! just because i spent my morning passing out peanut butter doesn't mean i'm the face of the company! goodness! and then while i was working the juicy juice tent, some guy asked me if juicy juice and jif had the same owners. i said no i didn't think so and i asked him why he asked. he said that he saw me working jif earlier and so he figured that since i was working juicy juice now too that they're owned by the same company....?
really people? did my official kick-it polo not clue you in that i don't work for jif? like why did i get a reputation as the jif girl just because i sat under the tent that had jif samples? had i been wearing a jif polo, i could understand their confusion. but i very obviously work for kick-it since i match all of the 14 other kick-it employees at this event.
AND even if i worked for jif, i still have a name! and that name is shannon, not "jif girl"! ahhh.
anyway, nothing super fun happened today. just the usual complainer parents and hyperactive kids.
when we finally cleaned up and left the site around 6, i was sooooo tired. but the day wasn't over yet. we showered and went to hil-dawgs room to post scores, then ended up watching youtube videos for like an hour. finally we went to dinner at a mexican restaurant in vail village at like 9, had some laughs, and came back. (but laura stayed behind bc she was worn out).
chris and i were twinsies tonight. i saw him wearing a blue shirt and jeans, so when i went to change, i purposely put on a blue shirt and jeans. haha and then we sat next to each other all night just as any twins would.
now i'm back at the hotel, it's almost midnight, and i'm still tired. so i'm off to bed!
nighty night!
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Friday, July 30, 2010
day 61
we got to the fields around 8, set up, ran check-in, games started at 1, games ended at 4, we put stuff away and whatnot, we were very rudely spoken to in the parking lot, and we came back to the hotel. not a TON of excitement in that time span....except that we almost tipped a gator like 3 times between me, chris, sean, laura, and hil-dawg. not surprising. AND sean and i were nearly attacked by a bird. i don't want to go into detail....it's too sensitive of a topic.
when we got back to the hotel, we showered and got ready to go, then we took some sponsors out to dinner. laura and i were laughing almost the entire time (which is ok, since we were on the opposite end of the table from the important people). the reason we were laughing? dave, on of the people from the office who are helping with this tournament, is an even bigger d-bag than cole was. i cannot even begin to describe this guy....he has no censor when he's talking, he can't tell the difference between debt and investment (long story), and he tried to tell us that he went to a women's studies class at his sister's school and that they talked about menstruation the entire time. isn't women's studies like a historical class? i don't really know, but i think dave just wanted to make a funny story. only it wasn't funny at all, and i think everyone gagged on their dinner when he talked about menstruation while people were eating. plus, he was talking about hooking up with every girl in the room, from our waitress to the other customers to the sponsors we were hosting......like, he was soooooo inappropriately cocky. laura and i were hysterical - we kept making eye contact while dave was telling his super duper, extremely loud stories and as soon as i looked at laura i knew we were thinking the same thing. hahaha i had a hard time holding in my laughter while this dude was talking. oy. i wish i could describe it better, but you'd just have to meet him. this will be a long weekend if i have to spend much time with him.
anywhoo, after the extremely offensive dinner, we came back to the hotel (with hil-dawg as our guide.....we took the scenic route) and now laura and i are just chillin in the hotel room. only tonight, we're literally "chillin" - our room is freezing.
tomorrow games go from 9 to 5, and we have to get to the fields at 630! ah! another looonnnngg dayyyy.....
good night!
when we got back to the hotel, we showered and got ready to go, then we took some sponsors out to dinner. laura and i were laughing almost the entire time (which is ok, since we were on the opposite end of the table from the important people). the reason we were laughing? dave, on of the people from the office who are helping with this tournament, is an even bigger d-bag than cole was. i cannot even begin to describe this guy....he has no censor when he's talking, he can't tell the difference between debt and investment (long story), and he tried to tell us that he went to a women's studies class at his sister's school and that they talked about menstruation the entire time. isn't women's studies like a historical class? i don't really know, but i think dave just wanted to make a funny story. only it wasn't funny at all, and i think everyone gagged on their dinner when he talked about menstruation while people were eating. plus, he was talking about hooking up with every girl in the room, from our waitress to the other customers to the sponsors we were hosting......like, he was soooooo inappropriately cocky. laura and i were hysterical - we kept making eye contact while dave was telling his super duper, extremely loud stories and as soon as i looked at laura i knew we were thinking the same thing. hahaha i had a hard time holding in my laughter while this dude was talking. oy. i wish i could describe it better, but you'd just have to meet him. this will be a long weekend if i have to spend much time with him.
anywhoo, after the extremely offensive dinner, we came back to the hotel (with hil-dawg as our guide.....we took the scenic route) and now laura and i are just chillin in the hotel room. only tonight, we're literally "chillin" - our room is freezing.
tomorrow games go from 9 to 5, and we have to get to the fields at 630! ah! another looonnnngg dayyyy.....
good night!
Thursday, July 29, 2010
day 60
today was super long for some reason. i swear i have no concept of time anymore. i don't know what day it is either. dah.
we left for the fields at 8, painted and set up goals, then we came back to the hotel and took naps. after that, laura and i went back to the fields to work out (event director hil-dawg didn't join us because her phone was broken hahaha - liar)
immediately when we got there it started pouring rain. ice cold, wet, uncomfortable rain. but we worked out anyway, and after a while it let up. we also got to kick a soccer ball around a bit and do some shooting - that felt so good!
after that we came back, showered, and then got picked up by mr. eric peyton!!!! it was so nice to see him!! we just wandered around vail village and lionshead (and we even drove to avon to see eric's TINY apartment! haha it's like smaller than my dorm room from last year) and we just hung out until his friend, mark, got there (mark was visiting vail this weekend too and he came from denver via greyhound). laura got tired at like 9 so we dropped her off on our way to pick up mark. we were starving at this point so we started walking around finding places to eat. that's the problem with vail. everything closes so early! and the places that were still open were 21 and over, so we had to search for a long time before we finally found a pizza place that wasn't carding so we could eat din din. (haha i've never wanted a fake i.d. until tonight. i was sooooo hungry!)
we ate and chatted for a while, then the boys walked me back to my hotel/lodge on their way back to eric's car. the road we were on was on the back side of the lodge, which is the direction that me and laura's first floor room faces. i saw a window that looked like ours - open window (no ac in the hotel and no window screens. scary? yes.), fan in the exact same position, curtains just how we had them, etc. - so eric and i climbed up this muddy hill thing and i was going to scare laura by climbing in through the window. i got to the window and looked in, only to realize that it wasn't my room!!!!! bahahahaha i'm SOOOO glad i checked before just climbing in! how awkward would that have been?! the room was all dark, so i couldn't really see anything except for the crack of light under the door to the hallway - but i knew the room wasn't mine because the door was on the wrong side of the wall. my room's layout was the reverse of that room. WHEW! i think i saved myself from a trip to the police station. haha
as soon as eric and i realized that the room wasn't mine, we ran down the hill (i actually slid down it, seeing as i was wearing toms and had no traction) and decided to just be normal and use the front doors. so now i'm back in my room, hoping that nobody makes the same mistake i did and just waltzes in through my window.....
i know vail isn't exactly full of crime, but would it really hurt to give the rooms window screens? like, i just think that would be logical. especially since we're on the ground floor. oh well. i guess it's convenient in case of a fire....?
tomorrow we finish setting stuff up and games start at noon! it'll probably be another long day!!
later gators
we left for the fields at 8, painted and set up goals, then we came back to the hotel and took naps. after that, laura and i went back to the fields to work out (event director hil-dawg didn't join us because her phone was broken hahaha - liar)
immediately when we got there it started pouring rain. ice cold, wet, uncomfortable rain. but we worked out anyway, and after a while it let up. we also got to kick a soccer ball around a bit and do some shooting - that felt so good!
after that we came back, showered, and then got picked up by mr. eric peyton!!!! it was so nice to see him!! we just wandered around vail village and lionshead (and we even drove to avon to see eric's TINY apartment! haha it's like smaller than my dorm room from last year) and we just hung out until his friend, mark, got there (mark was visiting vail this weekend too and he came from denver via greyhound). laura got tired at like 9 so we dropped her off on our way to pick up mark. we were starving at this point so we started walking around finding places to eat. that's the problem with vail. everything closes so early! and the places that were still open were 21 and over, so we had to search for a long time before we finally found a pizza place that wasn't carding so we could eat din din. (haha i've never wanted a fake i.d. until tonight. i was sooooo hungry!)
we ate and chatted for a while, then the boys walked me back to my hotel/lodge on their way back to eric's car. the road we were on was on the back side of the lodge, which is the direction that me and laura's first floor room faces. i saw a window that looked like ours - open window (no ac in the hotel and no window screens. scary? yes.), fan in the exact same position, curtains just how we had them, etc. - so eric and i climbed up this muddy hill thing and i was going to scare laura by climbing in through the window. i got to the window and looked in, only to realize that it wasn't my room!!!!! bahahahaha i'm SOOOO glad i checked before just climbing in! how awkward would that have been?! the room was all dark, so i couldn't really see anything except for the crack of light under the door to the hallway - but i knew the room wasn't mine because the door was on the wrong side of the wall. my room's layout was the reverse of that room. WHEW! i think i saved myself from a trip to the police station. haha
as soon as eric and i realized that the room wasn't mine, we ran down the hill (i actually slid down it, seeing as i was wearing toms and had no traction) and decided to just be normal and use the front doors. so now i'm back in my room, hoping that nobody makes the same mistake i did and just waltzes in through my window.....
i know vail isn't exactly full of crime, but would it really hurt to give the rooms window screens? like, i just think that would be logical. especially since we're on the ground floor. oh well. i guess it's convenient in case of a fire....?
tomorrow we finish setting stuff up and games start at noon! it'll probably be another long day!!
later gators
Wednesday, July 28, 2010
day 59
we got up, worked out, and left for vail.
the drive really wasn't too bad - no wasps in the truck, no brake failures, etc. i really can't complain. when we got to our hotel/lodge thing, our room was already ready, so we checked in and were lucky enough to get a first floor room! i don't know why, but i was so excited about that. how convenient. =]
after we got all settled in, i had a fantastic phone chat with miss jordan grubaugh! ahh it was so nice to catch up with her and talk about life.
it was a long phone chat though, so by the time i got back to the room, laura told me she thought i had died. haha oopsie ;]
from there we left to explore vail a little bit. it wasn't the same being here without george and stuff, but it was still verrrr nice. we checked out the ugliest shoe shop i've ever witnessed, and we wandered through another few shops before we went to dinner at pazzo's - the best pizza place everrr. yum. =]
then we ran back to the hotel because it had started to rain freezing cold rain, and neither of us had jackets with us. when we got back, the boys were here so we hung out with them for a bit and watched part of the mls allstars v man-u game. i can sum it up in 1 word: EMBARRASSING. man-u played half of their second string players and still dominated us. i only watched until like the 40th minute because i couldn't stand to watch that disgrace any longer. man-u scored a goal in the 36th SECOND. that's right - i didn't say MINUTE, i said SECOND. wow. don't even get me started....
then me and laura and chris and sean went to the grocery store and got food for breakfast the next few days since our hotel's breakfast isn't free (those jerks) and now laura and i are just chillin like villains in our very large, first floor room. =]
i'm super tired though, so that's all for now!
gute nacht!
the drive really wasn't too bad - no wasps in the truck, no brake failures, etc. i really can't complain. when we got to our hotel/lodge thing, our room was already ready, so we checked in and were lucky enough to get a first floor room! i don't know why, but i was so excited about that. how convenient. =]
after we got all settled in, i had a fantastic phone chat with miss jordan grubaugh! ahh it was so nice to catch up with her and talk about life.
it was a long phone chat though, so by the time i got back to the room, laura told me she thought i had died. haha oopsie ;]
from there we left to explore vail a little bit. it wasn't the same being here without george and stuff, but it was still verrrr nice. we checked out the ugliest shoe shop i've ever witnessed, and we wandered through another few shops before we went to dinner at pazzo's - the best pizza place everrr. yum. =]
then we ran back to the hotel because it had started to rain freezing cold rain, and neither of us had jackets with us. when we got back, the boys were here so we hung out with them for a bit and watched part of the mls allstars v man-u game. i can sum it up in 1 word: EMBARRASSING. man-u played half of their second string players and still dominated us. i only watched until like the 40th minute because i couldn't stand to watch that disgrace any longer. man-u scored a goal in the 36th SECOND. that's right - i didn't say MINUTE, i said SECOND. wow. don't even get me started....
then me and laura and chris and sean went to the grocery store and got food for breakfast the next few days since our hotel's breakfast isn't free (those jerks) and now laura and i are just chillin like villains in our very large, first floor room. =]
i'm super tired though, so that's all for now!
gute nacht!
day 58
today started off pretty slow. we found out that we don't need to be to vail until thursday, not wednesday like we originally thought. so we're staying in denver another night and we will drive to vail tomorrow.
this morning we got up for breakfast, then we just laid around all morning like total lazy bums. around 1 or 2, we went to the office to drop off some broken stuff that we don't need and that just gets in our way all the time. while there, we shot some hoops in the warehouse and chatted with hil-dawg and bryce. then we left the office and just came back to the hotel for a bit (and watched a tv show about little people) before we left for stephen's house. the other road crew that's in vail with us, chris and sean, are staying at stephen's so laura and i went over there to hang out/grill out with them and stephen. it was sooo much fun! those boys are hilarious. we watched a bit more of our tv show about the little people (it's called "the little couple" and it's addicting) for a little bit, ate bbq chicken and some steak kabobs, and chatted about life. after dinner, someone whipped out the jumbo marshmallows. it started out friendly, just throwing them around and throwing them into the ceiling fan so they'd shoot off in random directions.....but then one thing led to another and before we knew it we were running all over the house and chucking massive mallows at each other as hard as we could. like, we were leaving welts on each other. haha we were all sweating and breathing hard and running and screaming and hiding and sneaking and......ah it was so fun! by the end, our huge fluffy marshmallows had turned as hard as rocks. i think we just beat most of the air out of them. i still have some red marks on myself. haha but it was totally worth it. =]
after we called a truce, we went to cold stone and met a little 4 year old boy named miles. i'm not a huge fan of kids, but i honestly wanted to steal this one. he was sooooo cute and super friendly! we probably talked to him and his mom for a solid 15 minutes. and i wasn't even annoyed! THAT'S how adorable this little boy was. i hope i have a kid like that someday..
when we got back, we all just sat around and talked. laura and i started interrogating sean about his life and it evolved into a would you rather sort of thing. burger king or mcdonald's? chocolate or vanilla? fly or drive? ocean or mountains? etc. soon chris joined us and we interrogated him for a bit, started into the would you rather questions again, and before we knew it, 3 hours had gone by and laura and i were deleriously tired. so we had to say goodnight to the boys and go back to our hotel. now we're getting ready for bed and my phone is all cracked out and keeps deleting things and acting weird so...that stinks.
tomorrow we head to vail!
gute nacht!
this morning we got up for breakfast, then we just laid around all morning like total lazy bums. around 1 or 2, we went to the office to drop off some broken stuff that we don't need and that just gets in our way all the time. while there, we shot some hoops in the warehouse and chatted with hil-dawg and bryce. then we left the office and just came back to the hotel for a bit (and watched a tv show about little people) before we left for stephen's house. the other road crew that's in vail with us, chris and sean, are staying at stephen's so laura and i went over there to hang out/grill out with them and stephen. it was sooo much fun! those boys are hilarious. we watched a bit more of our tv show about the little people (it's called "the little couple" and it's addicting) for a little bit, ate bbq chicken and some steak kabobs, and chatted about life. after dinner, someone whipped out the jumbo marshmallows. it started out friendly, just throwing them around and throwing them into the ceiling fan so they'd shoot off in random directions.....but then one thing led to another and before we knew it we were running all over the house and chucking massive mallows at each other as hard as we could. like, we were leaving welts on each other. haha we were all sweating and breathing hard and running and screaming and hiding and sneaking and......ah it was so fun! by the end, our huge fluffy marshmallows had turned as hard as rocks. i think we just beat most of the air out of them. i still have some red marks on myself. haha but it was totally worth it. =]
after we called a truce, we went to cold stone and met a little 4 year old boy named miles. i'm not a huge fan of kids, but i honestly wanted to steal this one. he was sooooo cute and super friendly! we probably talked to him and his mom for a solid 15 minutes. and i wasn't even annoyed! THAT'S how adorable this little boy was. i hope i have a kid like that someday..
when we got back, we all just sat around and talked. laura and i started interrogating sean about his life and it evolved into a would you rather sort of thing. burger king or mcdonald's? chocolate or vanilla? fly or drive? ocean or mountains? etc. soon chris joined us and we interrogated him for a bit, started into the would you rather questions again, and before we knew it, 3 hours had gone by and laura and i were deleriously tired. so we had to say goodnight to the boys and go back to our hotel. now we're getting ready for bed and my phone is all cracked out and keeps deleting things and acting weird so...that stinks.
tomorrow we head to vail!
gute nacht!
Monday, July 26, 2010
day 57
today i got up early and ate with the fam fam before they all went off to work. then i ran and packed up my stuff, had an early lunch with my momma, and left for laura's house.
we ended up rollin out around noon. not a lot of excitement, we just.....drove.
at one point, after stopping for gas, we realized there was a wasp in our truck! ahh! we started freaking out, laura decided to drive in 2 lanes on the interstate, and we kept losing sight of it and then it would pop up again out of nowhere. scary! finally, i whacked that little booger out my open window and we were safe! it took a lot of tries though. that wasp was a tricky little feller..
also, laura lost the charger for her gps, so we went cruisin through the backroads of denver and eventually found our hotel thanks to our killer instincts (ie, a mixture of my phone, an atlas, and the google maps directions barb looked up and texted to us). ;]
minor details.
tomorrow we'll most likely continue on toward vail! woop woop!
goooooood night!
we ended up rollin out around noon. not a lot of excitement, we just.....drove.
at one point, after stopping for gas, we realized there was a wasp in our truck! ahh! we started freaking out, laura decided to drive in 2 lanes on the interstate, and we kept losing sight of it and then it would pop up again out of nowhere. scary! finally, i whacked that little booger out my open window and we were safe! it took a lot of tries though. that wasp was a tricky little feller..
also, laura lost the charger for her gps, so we went cruisin through the backroads of denver and eventually found our hotel thanks to our killer instincts (ie, a mixture of my phone, an atlas, and the google maps directions barb looked up and texted to us). ;]
minor details.
tomorrow we'll most likely continue on toward vail! woop woop!
goooooood night!
Sunday, July 25, 2010
day 56
championship sunday..
um things went well. beautiful weather - absolutely perfect. otherwise, not much to report.
cleanup, however, took like 4 hours. i don't know why though, because as we were packing up it didn't seem like it was taking forever but then i would look at my watch and it would just be so much later than i expected. i've made the executive decision to blame our extremely slow packing up job on event-director cole, based on the fact that he's the worst event director we've had.
anywhoo, we finally rolled out of des moines around six, then i met up with the fam in minden while laura drove the truck to her casa. we get to stay at home tonight and then we leave for vail tomorrow morning. vail will be my last tourney! i'm excited to be done, but i'm also surprised that it came so soon!
ah. anyway, this wasn't a very exciting post. i think i've been getting pretty lazy on my posting. maybe i'll spice it up with more stories next week since it'll be my final week of blogging.....
eh, we'll see. ;]
gute nacht!
um things went well. beautiful weather - absolutely perfect. otherwise, not much to report.
cleanup, however, took like 4 hours. i don't know why though, because as we were packing up it didn't seem like it was taking forever but then i would look at my watch and it would just be so much later than i expected. i've made the executive decision to blame our extremely slow packing up job on event-director cole, based on the fact that he's the worst event director we've had.
anywhoo, we finally rolled out of des moines around six, then i met up with the fam in minden while laura drove the truck to her casa. we get to stay at home tonight and then we leave for vail tomorrow morning. vail will be my last tourney! i'm excited to be done, but i'm also surprised that it came so soon!
ah. anyway, this wasn't a very exciting post. i think i've been getting pretty lazy on my posting. maybe i'll spice it up with more stories next week since it'll be my final week of blogging.....
eh, we'll see. ;]
gute nacht!
Saturday, July 24, 2010
day 55
super saturday.
we got to the fields, set stuff up (cole was no help), and then we had a somewhat busy morning checking people in and things like that but after the initial rush it turned into a regular old saturday. we chilled out under the tent, laura updated scores, and i fell asleep in the chair again. it was mostly cloudy and there was a bit of wind, but luckily no rain. it was kind of a nice change from our hot sunny tournaments. today was almost chilly at some points.
while we all hung out, cole told us some sweet life stories. and yes, that is sarcasm, because his stories weren't sweet at all. they were actually pretty dumb. and he kept telling us the same ones over and over and over again. i would rather have banged my head into the table than listen to his stories one more time.
then around lunchtime, my lovely little big sister christy came to visit me!!!!!!! it was soooo nice to see her and have her there to hang out all afternoon! we just chatted and hung out until she had to leave, then i walked her to her car. on my way back to hq, one of the field maintenance guys chatted my ear off for FORTY MINUTES. no joke. i literally checked my watch and timed it. he was just being friendly, but i actually had work to do because by that time we could start taking some stuff down. oy.
when we finally got back to the hotel, i helped cole enter results which was pointless because we ended up not being able to upload them to the internet anyway. ugh.
then we went to dinner at chili's. i don't think i've ever eaten there before and i was pleasantly surprised! it was actually pretty good!
after dinner, cole bought me and laura some stuff to make up for being such a hassle last night (muahahahaha) and then we came back to the hotel and i talked to schmabriel for a little while on ze phone.
now we're gettin ready for bed. tomorrow is championship sunday! night!
we got to the fields, set stuff up (cole was no help), and then we had a somewhat busy morning checking people in and things like that but after the initial rush it turned into a regular old saturday. we chilled out under the tent, laura updated scores, and i fell asleep in the chair again. it was mostly cloudy and there was a bit of wind, but luckily no rain. it was kind of a nice change from our hot sunny tournaments. today was almost chilly at some points.
while we all hung out, cole told us some sweet life stories. and yes, that is sarcasm, because his stories weren't sweet at all. they were actually pretty dumb. and he kept telling us the same ones over and over and over again. i would rather have banged my head into the table than listen to his stories one more time.
then around lunchtime, my lovely little big sister christy came to visit me!!!!!!! it was soooo nice to see her and have her there to hang out all afternoon! we just chatted and hung out until she had to leave, then i walked her to her car. on my way back to hq, one of the field maintenance guys chatted my ear off for FORTY MINUTES. no joke. i literally checked my watch and timed it. he was just being friendly, but i actually had work to do because by that time we could start taking some stuff down. oy.
when we finally got back to the hotel, i helped cole enter results which was pointless because we ended up not being able to upload them to the internet anyway. ugh.
then we went to dinner at chili's. i don't think i've ever eaten there before and i was pleasantly surprised! it was actually pretty good!
after dinner, cole bought me and laura some stuff to make up for being such a hassle last night (muahahahaha) and then we came back to the hotel and i talked to schmabriel for a little while on ze phone.
now we're gettin ready for bed. tomorrow is championship sunday! night!
Friday, July 23, 2010
day 54
today was pretty longgggg.....
after breakfast we went to the fields to set up schtuff. it was about 150 degrees out, plus humidity. it was sooooo hot! i had sweat running down my shins. MY SHINS. yeah, that happens.
our volunteer dudes are superb though. they set up goals for us! seriously, i love des moines. well, technically it's ankeny. but really. that's like one in the same. =]
after a nice long day at the fields, laura and i showered and left for check-in. that went pretty well, as usual. then we went to panera for dinner and treated ourselves to some ice cream for dessert. yum =]
you may be wondering where our event director was for all of this? yeah, our event director is a tool. he didn't fly in until tonight. his flight was supposed to land at 940, and he made us drive a half hour each way to pick him up. then his flight was delayed because of bad weather, so he wanted us to just hang out near the airport and wait for him to land. uh, no. we came back to the hotel and hung out, then when he called to say he finally landed in des moines, we had to get out of our comfy beds to go get him. and the cherry on top of this happy sundae was that on the drive back to the hotel, he sat there and complained about HIS life! ha! he sat around in air-conditioned airports all day! what is so hard about that? oh, but he was hung over from partying the night before. whose fault is that?! the whole reason he arrived 2 days late was because of a last minute event director switch and supposedly he couldn't find a flight to des moines until tonight. we suggested flying into omaha and then renting a car and driving the 2 hours to des moines. apparently that was too inconvenient for him. so laura and i did all of the hard work (setting up) today while he partied it up with his buddy in texas for 2 days. then he has the nerve to make us pick him up at the airport at midnight? at least we made him ride in the middle seat. but we're still nowhere near being even.
he better not expect smiles when we see him in the morning.
that is all.
good night.
after breakfast we went to the fields to set up schtuff. it was about 150 degrees out, plus humidity. it was sooooo hot! i had sweat running down my shins. MY SHINS. yeah, that happens.
our volunteer dudes are superb though. they set up goals for us! seriously, i love des moines. well, technically it's ankeny. but really. that's like one in the same. =]
after a nice long day at the fields, laura and i showered and left for check-in. that went pretty well, as usual. then we went to panera for dinner and treated ourselves to some ice cream for dessert. yum =]
you may be wondering where our event director was for all of this? yeah, our event director is a tool. he didn't fly in until tonight. his flight was supposed to land at 940, and he made us drive a half hour each way to pick him up. then his flight was delayed because of bad weather, so he wanted us to just hang out near the airport and wait for him to land. uh, no. we came back to the hotel and hung out, then when he called to say he finally landed in des moines, we had to get out of our comfy beds to go get him. and the cherry on top of this happy sundae was that on the drive back to the hotel, he sat there and complained about HIS life! ha! he sat around in air-conditioned airports all day! what is so hard about that? oh, but he was hung over from partying the night before. whose fault is that?! the whole reason he arrived 2 days late was because of a last minute event director switch and supposedly he couldn't find a flight to des moines until tonight. we suggested flying into omaha and then renting a car and driving the 2 hours to des moines. apparently that was too inconvenient for him. so laura and i did all of the hard work (setting up) today while he partied it up with his buddy in texas for 2 days. then he has the nerve to make us pick him up at the airport at midnight? at least we made him ride in the middle seat. but we're still nowhere near being even.
he better not expect smiles when we see him in the morning.
that is all.
good night.
Thursday, July 22, 2010
day 53
this morning we got up, had breakfast, and went to the fields to set up goals. apparently they were going to mow today so we couldn't put up the goals yet. so we came back to the hotel, watched some gilmore girls, then went back to kick a soccer ball around. it was so windy and our soccer balls were flat (plus our ball pump is broken) so we gave up on that pretty quickly. at that point i went for a run while laura hung out/made some phone calls. then we came back to the hotel and i showered. we pretty much just hung out for awhile, then laura's nieces (haylee and kamryn) and her sissy carrie stopped by and hung out - swam in the hotel pool and such. her nieces are adorable!! =] after that, laura and i just lay around some more (we're really good at that) and then she went to work out around 6, which is when miss SHELBY JACOBS came to pick me up!! ahhhh!!!!! it was soooo great to see her! we went to a farmer's market and grabbed dinner (which included a monster-sized monster cookie thing - like a square foot of monster cookie!), then we went to an iowa cubs baseball game, and after that we went to her casa for some choco milk and more monster cookie.....and then we went for a little adventure.. we went to a river/lake/park thing (idk the name of it) and we played on the playground for a bit before going off to the little peninsula thingy to explore. it was sooo pretty! the moon was all bright and the water was all calm......so of course we took some very scenic photos haha and after that we drove into this creepy little neighborhood thing that's hard to explain but just so we're all clear - it's CREEPY. then shelb took me back to mah hotel.
a super fun, hot and sticky, adventurous, midwestern summer night with one of my greatest friends? priceless.
haha so the majority of this post was one giant paragraph....maybe even one giant run-on sentence...i'm sorry if it's hard to follow.
but i'm too tired to figure out if it's readable or not! gute nacht!
a super fun, hot and sticky, adventurous, midwestern summer night with one of my greatest friends? priceless.
haha so the majority of this post was one giant paragraph....maybe even one giant run-on sentence...i'm sorry if it's hard to follow.
but i'm too tired to figure out if it's readable or not! gute nacht!
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
day 52
we woke up for breakfast, then went back to bed until noon.
we drove to des moines, worked out, and now we're ready for bed.
not a very exciting day..
however, the fields are already painted for us for this tournament so can i just get a giant HOO-RAH for the people of ankeny?! they saved us about, oh, 3.5 hours of work!!!!
later gators!
we drove to des moines, worked out, and now we're ready for bed.
not a very exciting day..
however, the fields are already painted for us for this tournament so can i just get a giant HOO-RAH for the people of ankeny?! they saved us about, oh, 3.5 hours of work!!!!
later gators!
day 51
we went to six flags!!!!!!!
we got up, ate breakfast, went back to bed, woke up again, and left with shelly and her brotha. it was great weather and tons of fun! the raging bull and the superman rides were my favorite. the batman "thrill" ride was a close second though (bahahaha kidding! it was lame - except for the awesome neck-snapping corners that we flew through about eight thousand times)
then that evening we got to see the maine perform! their music is good in my opinion, although their lyrics are a bit sketch sometimes. i've seen them live twice now, and i must say that they are AWFUL performers! their stage presence is barely there and they don't even seem to be having fun. haha but we'll look at the glass as being half full because at the end of the day, i still enjoy their music. =]
after six flags we went to a mcdonalds that was located OVER THE INTERSTATE. soooo cool! apparently they're "everywhere in chicago" according to shelly but laura and i were still amazed!
um then we went to the o'hare airport...on accident....before shelly dropped us off at our hotel. it was a good day.
the best part? I GOT A $5 WONDER WOMAN CAPE AT SIX FLAGS!!!!!!!! AHH!!! my life = complete.
gute nacht!
we got up, ate breakfast, went back to bed, woke up again, and left with shelly and her brotha. it was great weather and tons of fun! the raging bull and the superman rides were my favorite. the batman "thrill" ride was a close second though (bahahaha kidding! it was lame - except for the awesome neck-snapping corners that we flew through about eight thousand times)
then that evening we got to see the maine perform! their music is good in my opinion, although their lyrics are a bit sketch sometimes. i've seen them live twice now, and i must say that they are AWFUL performers! their stage presence is barely there and they don't even seem to be having fun. haha but we'll look at the glass as being half full because at the end of the day, i still enjoy their music. =]
after six flags we went to a mcdonalds that was located OVER THE INTERSTATE. soooo cool! apparently they're "everywhere in chicago" according to shelly but laura and i were still amazed!
um then we went to the o'hare airport...on accident....before shelly dropped us off at our hotel. it was a good day.
the best part? I GOT A $5 WONDER WOMAN CAPE AT SIX FLAGS!!!!!!!! AHH!!! my life = complete.
gute nacht!
Monday, July 19, 2010
day 50
this morning, we got up and had breakfast, then we went to the beach on lake michigan! after spending a couple hours laying out (the water was FREEZING!!) we decided to go shopping.
one problem: WE DRIVE A MASSIVE TRUCK.
ah getting that thing through downtown chicago was a nightmare!! we didn't mean to actually go downtown - we were just going to go park a little ways away from it - but that was a FAIL.
so after that adrenaline rush of a ride, we parked in the ghetto and then took the train into downtown. we met up with laura's friend "shelly", then shopped and wandered and saw a giant eyeball.....and laura lost her camera...
we also got to watch a scene for transformers 3 be filmed because they're filming it in chi town i guess. i've never seen the movies, but i was still kind of excited about that haha
after walking back to a store to get laura's camera, we took the train back to our hood, then located our truck (which wasn't stolen OR towed - whew!)
it was a fun day, but i'm beat. we're gonna work out in a little bit and then it's off to bed for me!
six flags tomorrow!!!!
one problem: WE DRIVE A MASSIVE TRUCK.
ah getting that thing through downtown chicago was a nightmare!! we didn't mean to actually go downtown - we were just going to go park a little ways away from it - but that was a FAIL.
so after that adrenaline rush of a ride, we parked in the ghetto and then took the train into downtown. we met up with laura's friend "shelly", then shopped and wandered and saw a giant eyeball.....and laura lost her camera...
we also got to watch a scene for transformers 3 be filmed because they're filming it in chi town i guess. i've never seen the movies, but i was still kind of excited about that haha
after walking back to a store to get laura's camera, we took the train back to our hood, then located our truck (which wasn't stolen OR towed - whew!)
it was a fun day, but i'm beat. we're gonna work out in a little bit and then it's off to bed for me!
six flags tomorrow!!!!
Sunday, July 18, 2010
day 49
championship sundayyyyyyyy
yesterday's worst complainers ended up winning their bracket. only because they complained their way into another team just flat-out leaving the tournament. i really had to bite my tongue when we handed them their championship medals. ugh.
anyway, so we packed everything up as usual. except bryce showed laura and i like 50 new tricks that would've made our summer 10x easier had we known them from the beginning!!!!! ahh.
oh, and my new 40-something-year-old friend named francisco or something crazy like that (he was originally from mexico) helped me tear down goals and carry them to the truck. i'll admit, he was kind of a creep. haha i told him i was seventeen and that i had a boyfriend of over 2 years so that he knew for a fact that he had no chance. little lies can come in handy sometimes, ya know?
after we were all packed up, we all went back to bryce's room and cleaned up, then i fell asleep while laura and bryce drove to the detroit hard rock cafe to get some schtuff. when they got back, laura and i left for chicagooooo!!!!! on our way out of detroit, we experienced some strange things. first of all, it started raining cats & dogs......but it was completely SUNNY. like, i have no idea where those water-balloon-sized raindrops were coming from. but they were drowning our truck, soo.....
and also, we passed the sign for 11 mile road liiiike 50 times. and i would just like to point out that 11 mile road and 8 mile road are 14 miles apart?! this made no sense to me. but i clocked it. haha and THEN to make matters worse, about an hour outside of detroit, I SAW ANOTHER SIGN FOR 11 MILE ROAD!!!!!!! ahhh!! i swear, i thought we were driving in the largest circle ever. hahaha we were chuckling about that one for a while.
anywhoo....once we finally arrived at our hotel in chicago, they were overbooked (yeah, i guess hotels do that now?) so laura went crazy on the front desk guy and got like a discount and stuff. she's a tough cookie (and a racist: she told the concierge that he was there to serve her. yeah, he's black). i just shriveled into the corner and smiled. haha
while we were waiting for our room to be ready, a couple of the hotel employees just rolled by on a fully sized pool table. no big deal.
AND there's a rug hanging on the wall in the lobby. huh?
typical.
tomorrow we explore chicago!
gute nacht!
yesterday's worst complainers ended up winning their bracket. only because they complained their way into another team just flat-out leaving the tournament. i really had to bite my tongue when we handed them their championship medals. ugh.
anyway, so we packed everything up as usual. except bryce showed laura and i like 50 new tricks that would've made our summer 10x easier had we known them from the beginning!!!!! ahh.
oh, and my new 40-something-year-old friend named francisco or something crazy like that (he was originally from mexico) helped me tear down goals and carry them to the truck. i'll admit, he was kind of a creep. haha i told him i was seventeen and that i had a boyfriend of over 2 years so that he knew for a fact that he had no chance. little lies can come in handy sometimes, ya know?
after we were all packed up, we all went back to bryce's room and cleaned up, then i fell asleep while laura and bryce drove to the detroit hard rock cafe to get some schtuff. when they got back, laura and i left for chicagooooo!!!!! on our way out of detroit, we experienced some strange things. first of all, it started raining cats & dogs......but it was completely SUNNY. like, i have no idea where those water-balloon-sized raindrops were coming from. but they were drowning our truck, soo.....
and also, we passed the sign for 11 mile road liiiike 50 times. and i would just like to point out that 11 mile road and 8 mile road are 14 miles apart?! this made no sense to me. but i clocked it. haha and THEN to make matters worse, about an hour outside of detroit, I SAW ANOTHER SIGN FOR 11 MILE ROAD!!!!!!! ahhh!! i swear, i thought we were driving in the largest circle ever. hahaha we were chuckling about that one for a while.
anywhoo....once we finally arrived at our hotel in chicago, they were overbooked (yeah, i guess hotels do that now?) so laura went crazy on the front desk guy and got like a discount and stuff. she's a tough cookie (and a racist: she told the concierge that he was there to serve her. yeah, he's black). i just shriveled into the corner and smiled. haha
while we were waiting for our room to be ready, a couple of the hotel employees just rolled by on a fully sized pool table. no big deal.
AND there's a rug hanging on the wall in the lobby. huh?
typical.
tomorrow we explore chicago!
gute nacht!
Saturday, July 17, 2010
day 48
today was long and hot.
we had like twice as many complaints as we've ever had at a tourney. and today was just pool play! makes me worried for tomorrow....
but otherwise it was a pretty ok day. before all the unnecessary complaining happened, i basically just sat around in hq drinking gatorades. i even called miss gabriel and was able to chat with her for a while while i was "working" haha
i enjoy getting paid to do nothing. =]
later on, however, all of a sudden we had a bunch of parents complaining about teams who were "cheating" by playing in such and such an age group blah blah blah yada yada yada......and it's frustrating because when teams register, we go by the honor system. if they say they have no select players, we're obviously not going to do a background check to make sure they aren't lying. so when teams start losing to teams who are just flat-out better, the losers' parents all of a sudden get in our faces about how unfair it all is.
but the complaints about older kids playing down or younger kids playing up or whatever it may be, are completely avoidable. when teams register, the people in our home office will call all of the teams in an age division and verify that it's ok if a team plays up/down. then when that team starts winning, the parents (who agreed to it in the first place) all of a sudden want to yell at us about it? it got to the point where laura, bryce, and i just started telling parents to deal with it. it's supposed to be a fun tourney, no the freaking junior world cup. if a team loses, the parents should be glad that their kids will improve by playing tough competition. but instead the parents try to live through their kids and they become obsessed with winning. ugh. people can be soo....obnoxious.
this one mom was telling laura and i how this "cheating" team kept winning and how if we don't disqualify that team, we're promoting the art of cheating (or something stupid like that). i just wanted to tell the mom to set a better example for her kids and just have a good attitude whether they win or lose, and teach them that they can't just whine and complain when things don't go their way. oh it was so so so so so annoying. she said the same sentence like over and over and over again and every time she said it i was like "uh yes we've established your opinion on that. let's move on, psycho."
i didn't actually say that, but it definitely crossed my mind a time or two.
as you can see, i feel very strongly about it. haha no i actually am not too torn up about this. i mean, we can't please everyone. besides, there are more important things in life. i just needed to get that out of my system. so now that i just vented to all of the people that read this......
anyway, the rest of the day was pretty good. we tried to enter scores online (bryce and laura tried, i fell asleep) but it wouldn't work, so we went and grabbed dinner at subway (or "subways" as bryce calls it) then came back to the hotel, laura and i watched like a zillion episodes of ncis, then we worked out, and now we're just chillin like villains in our hotel room.
oh, but while we worked out, we were all jumpy and skeptical of anyone that came out into the parking lot. haha i think we were just hung up on the ncis episodes we had just watched. our fight-or-flight responses were still kicked in.
the first guy, though, was a total creep. hahaha and laura and i let him know it! he was tryin to chat with us and when we just completely shot him down, he tried to act halfway normal and ask us if we knew which hotel this was. i was like "uh yeah it's a la quinta, like it says on that sign that's RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU." hah, idiot.
anywhoo, i'm verrrrrr tired, so i'm gonna end here. but i think that's basically everything that happened today..
night!
we had like twice as many complaints as we've ever had at a tourney. and today was just pool play! makes me worried for tomorrow....
but otherwise it was a pretty ok day. before all the unnecessary complaining happened, i basically just sat around in hq drinking gatorades. i even called miss gabriel and was able to chat with her for a while while i was "working" haha
i enjoy getting paid to do nothing. =]
later on, however, all of a sudden we had a bunch of parents complaining about teams who were "cheating" by playing in such and such an age group blah blah blah yada yada yada......and it's frustrating because when teams register, we go by the honor system. if they say they have no select players, we're obviously not going to do a background check to make sure they aren't lying. so when teams start losing to teams who are just flat-out better, the losers' parents all of a sudden get in our faces about how unfair it all is.
but the complaints about older kids playing down or younger kids playing up or whatever it may be, are completely avoidable. when teams register, the people in our home office will call all of the teams in an age division and verify that it's ok if a team plays up/down. then when that team starts winning, the parents (who agreed to it in the first place) all of a sudden want to yell at us about it? it got to the point where laura, bryce, and i just started telling parents to deal with it. it's supposed to be a fun tourney, no the freaking junior world cup. if a team loses, the parents should be glad that their kids will improve by playing tough competition. but instead the parents try to live through their kids and they become obsessed with winning. ugh. people can be soo....obnoxious.
this one mom was telling laura and i how this "cheating" team kept winning and how if we don't disqualify that team, we're promoting the art of cheating (or something stupid like that). i just wanted to tell the mom to set a better example for her kids and just have a good attitude whether they win or lose, and teach them that they can't just whine and complain when things don't go their way. oh it was so so so so so annoying. she said the same sentence like over and over and over again and every time she said it i was like "uh yes we've established your opinion on that. let's move on, psycho."
i didn't actually say that, but it definitely crossed my mind a time or two.
as you can see, i feel very strongly about it. haha no i actually am not too torn up about this. i mean, we can't please everyone. besides, there are more important things in life. i just needed to get that out of my system. so now that i just vented to all of the people that read this......
anyway, the rest of the day was pretty good. we tried to enter scores online (bryce and laura tried, i fell asleep) but it wouldn't work, so we went and grabbed dinner at subway (or "subways" as bryce calls it) then came back to the hotel, laura and i watched like a zillion episodes of ncis, then we worked out, and now we're just chillin like villains in our hotel room.
oh, but while we worked out, we were all jumpy and skeptical of anyone that came out into the parking lot. haha i think we were just hung up on the ncis episodes we had just watched. our fight-or-flight responses were still kicked in.
the first guy, though, was a total creep. hahaha and laura and i let him know it! he was tryin to chat with us and when we just completely shot him down, he tried to act halfway normal and ask us if we knew which hotel this was. i was like "uh yeah it's a la quinta, like it says on that sign that's RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU." hah, idiot.
anywhoo, i'm verrrrrr tired, so i'm gonna end here. but i think that's basically everything that happened today..
night!
Friday, July 16, 2010
day 47
today we painted the fields and set everything up. there were only 3 of us - me, laura, and event-director-bryce.
bryce is a pretty cool dude. he's got a super relaxed, whatever attitude and when he's the "boss" at a tournament, i like that very much. less work for me.
so anyway, we set up the fields and i think it was the fastest we've ever done it - and there were only 3 of us!! so that was nice.
after setting up, we came back to the hotel and napped/showered and then went to check-in at sports authority. pretty boring.....except for the lady who kept saying "youf large" and "youf medium" and "youf" this and "youf" that (she meant "youth" just to clarify). haha i enjoyed that a lot. =]
after that we had to go to the fields again to pay our security guard who is like a stereotypical huge black guy with a shirt and matching hat that say SECURITY in huge letters. when we got to the fields, there were these guys playing on them and they MOVED OUR GOALS!!!!!!! ahhh!! we were sooo annoyed because those things are awful to set up. ugh.
after all that, we went to a mexican restaraunt to eat dinner. when we pulled in, we were like "this place looks ghetto" but we took a chance on it and went inside and WOW it was soo good! the food was great and the atmosphere was super duper. it said "HOLA AMIGOS" in huge letters on the wall for goodness sake. how could you not like this place?
now we're back at the hotel...i'm tired..and we leave at 7 for the fields tomorrow.
that's about it i think.........
nighty night!
bryce is a pretty cool dude. he's got a super relaxed, whatever attitude and when he's the "boss" at a tournament, i like that very much. less work for me.
so anyway, we set up the fields and i think it was the fastest we've ever done it - and there were only 3 of us!! so that was nice.
after setting up, we came back to the hotel and napped/showered and then went to check-in at sports authority. pretty boring.....except for the lady who kept saying "youf large" and "youf medium" and "youf" this and "youf" that (she meant "youth" just to clarify). haha i enjoyed that a lot. =]
after that we had to go to the fields again to pay our security guard who is like a stereotypical huge black guy with a shirt and matching hat that say SECURITY in huge letters. when we got to the fields, there were these guys playing on them and they MOVED OUR GOALS!!!!!!! ahhh!! we were sooo annoyed because those things are awful to set up. ugh.
after all that, we went to a mexican restaraunt to eat dinner. when we pulled in, we were like "this place looks ghetto" but we took a chance on it and went inside and WOW it was soo good! the food was great and the atmosphere was super duper. it said "HOLA AMIGOS" in huge letters on the wall for goodness sake. how could you not like this place?
now we're back at the hotel...i'm tired..and we leave at 7 for the fields tomorrow.
that's about it i think.........
nighty night!
Thursday, July 15, 2010
day 46
today we woke up and left our ghetto hotel, then drove to detroit.
now we're still not in the nicest neighborhood, but it's definitely better than yesterday's hood spot.
i can't really think of any excitement that happened...we just drove.
tomorrow we paint the fields and set up! gute nacht!
now we're still not in the nicest neighborhood, but it's definitely better than yesterday's hood spot.
i can't really think of any excitement that happened...we just drove.
tomorrow we paint the fields and set up! gute nacht!
day 45
we drove allllll day....
we stayed just outside of chicago, in a place where there were constant sirens and there were cops at literally every street corner. and we were 2 of like, 5 white people that we saw. laura and i brought allll of our stuff inside so that nothing would get stolen, and we pretty much hid in our room all night.
to quote a sign at our hotel: "if you like to smoke, please go to one of our another hotel"
and another one said: "we appreciate your Co-Operation" (i guess it's hyphenated now)
so.....that's that. haha
we stayed just outside of chicago, in a place where there were constant sirens and there were cops at literally every street corner. and we were 2 of like, 5 white people that we saw. laura and i brought allll of our stuff inside so that nothing would get stolen, and we pretty much hid in our room all night.
to quote a sign at our hotel: "if you like to smoke, please go to one of our another hotel"
and another one said: "we appreciate your Co-Operation" (i guess it's hyphenated now)
so.....that's that. haha
Tuesday, July 13, 2010
day 44
so....
sunday night i stayed in lincoln at jordan's! woop woop! and then monday morning i met up with miss anna white and chatted with her for a couple of hours, which was so great! then i went to campus to take a nap at the library for a little while, and around 230 when kat williamsen got out of class, i met up with her and we chatted for an hour or so, which was also really nice!
after that i stopped in to say helloooo (technically, goodbye) to mr alex kolbo before heading home. when i got home, i had din din with the fam, then skateboarded with emily miller and kayla moore (woooooo hoooo!!!!) for a bit. after that, i went for a run and then just kind of hung around the house and went to bed.
today (tuesday) i went to verizon to fix my phone, i ran at the wabash, then i started a bucket list adventure with kayla moore and katie bazzell (aka saltballs). we got through a few things, but that's an adventure that will need to be continued..and will probably include emily miller when it is!
after that my fam and i went to the school board meeting where some parents of elementary school kids presented an idea for treynor to start a soccer program. once again, mr. elwood is a total slimeball jerk. but anywhoo, it went pretty well and i'm excited to hear the final decision.
after that we went to creighton stadium to watch the usa women's national team play sweden! it ended in a 1-1 tie. it was so much fun to watch though!
and now i'm home..doing laundry and little things like that. tomorrow we hit the road for detroit!!
sunday night i stayed in lincoln at jordan's! woop woop! and then monday morning i met up with miss anna white and chatted with her for a couple of hours, which was so great! then i went to campus to take a nap at the library for a little while, and around 230 when kat williamsen got out of class, i met up with her and we chatted for an hour or so, which was also really nice!
after that i stopped in to say helloooo (technically, goodbye) to mr alex kolbo before heading home. when i got home, i had din din with the fam, then skateboarded with emily miller and kayla moore (woooooo hoooo!!!!) for a bit. after that, i went for a run and then just kind of hung around the house and went to bed.
today (tuesday) i went to verizon to fix my phone, i ran at the wabash, then i started a bucket list adventure with kayla moore and katie bazzell (aka saltballs). we got through a few things, but that's an adventure that will need to be continued..and will probably include emily miller when it is!
after that my fam and i went to the school board meeting where some parents of elementary school kids presented an idea for treynor to start a soccer program. once again, mr. elwood is a total slimeball jerk. but anywhoo, it went pretty well and i'm excited to hear the final decision.
after that we went to creighton stadium to watch the usa women's national team play sweden! it ended in a 1-1 tie. it was so much fun to watch though!
and now i'm home..doing laundry and little things like that. tomorrow we hit the road for detroit!!
Sunday, July 11, 2010
day 42
CHAMPIONSHIP SUNDAYYYYY!!!!!!!!
things went smoothly. we were outta there in time for the second half of the world cup finals. CAN I GET A WOOP WOOP FOR SPAIN ANYONE?!?!?!?!!!!!
anyway, the volunteer with a pool also informed us about her $8000 stereo system that she's got in her car. i'm oh-so-thrilled to have that information logged away in my brain forever. thanks pool girl.
um....oh! george's team won!! i'll give them props for keeping me and laura's legacy going strong. however, they're the smurfettes? the name kind of tarnished our legacy a bit. but i'm gonna look at the glass as being half full. regardless of their team name, they won.
AND an added bonus is that george's nickname is papa smurf. and he's rockin a new blue bucket hat. if this were facebook, i would "like" that.
after the tourney and schtuff, i skateboarded around L town for a bit, chatted on the phone with schmabriel, sat on a rock near a creek, then proceeded to run right through this creek in a state of excitement because while i was on my rock, liz marsh and jen webers rode by on their bikes!! i was sooooo surprised!!!! ahhh it was so good to see them! =]
after that little surprise rendezvous, i met up with mr. alex kolbo and we got nuvibe (yum) and went to see toy story 3 (in 3D of course) and it was soooooooooo good!
excuse my run-on sentence.
now i'm having a SPENDY with jordan grubauch =] and then tomorrow i get to see anna white AND kat williamsen!! it's gonna be a good day.
shout out to everyone whose name i name-dropped in this post.....and to everyone whose name i didn't mention :D
later gators!
things went smoothly. we were outta there in time for the second half of the world cup finals. CAN I GET A WOOP WOOP FOR SPAIN ANYONE?!?!?!?!!!!!
anyway, the volunteer with a pool also informed us about her $8000 stereo system that she's got in her car. i'm oh-so-thrilled to have that information logged away in my brain forever. thanks pool girl.
um....oh! george's team won!! i'll give them props for keeping me and laura's legacy going strong. however, they're the smurfettes? the name kind of tarnished our legacy a bit. but i'm gonna look at the glass as being half full. regardless of their team name, they won.
AND an added bonus is that george's nickname is papa smurf. and he's rockin a new blue bucket hat. if this were facebook, i would "like" that.
after the tourney and schtuff, i skateboarded around L town for a bit, chatted on the phone with schmabriel, sat on a rock near a creek, then proceeded to run right through this creek in a state of excitement because while i was on my rock, liz marsh and jen webers rode by on their bikes!! i was sooooo surprised!!!! ahhh it was so good to see them! =]
after that little surprise rendezvous, i met up with mr. alex kolbo and we got nuvibe (yum) and went to see toy story 3 (in 3D of course) and it was soooooooooo good!
excuse my run-on sentence.
now i'm having a SPENDY with jordan grubauch =] and then tomorrow i get to see anna white AND kat williamsen!! it's gonna be a good day.
shout out to everyone whose name i name-dropped in this post.....and to everyone whose name i didn't mention :D
later gators!
Saturday, July 10, 2010
day 41
ran the tourney.
BARB helped! she's our new favorite volunteer.
......barb 4 president...4 lyfe....
um and alexander the great (aka alex kolbo - it's his street name) came to the fields to visit! that was a very pleasant surprise!!!! =]
anywhoo today went smoothly..not too much excitement. i fell asleep in my chair at hq. no big deal.
then din din at olive garden. haha i didn't attempt to eat $27 worth of food this time. um our waiter was flirting with barb and giving her like a bottle's worth of free-sample wine. and he was very prompt. a good fellow.
after din din i ran on a bike trail, then hung out with bryan for a bit. now i'm trying to sleep but i can't because it's thunderstorming out and i LOVE thunderstorms!!!! ahhh!
plus i realized that i almost forgot to blog. but obviously i didn't completely forget because here i am, blogging! =]
welllllll, zat is all!! ima go watch this t-storm now. gute nacht!!
BARB helped! she's our new favorite volunteer.
......barb 4 president...4 lyfe....
um and alexander the great (aka alex kolbo - it's his street name) came to the fields to visit! that was a very pleasant surprise!!!! =]
anywhoo today went smoothly..not too much excitement. i fell asleep in my chair at hq. no big deal.
then din din at olive garden. haha i didn't attempt to eat $27 worth of food this time. um our waiter was flirting with barb and giving her like a bottle's worth of free-sample wine. and he was very prompt. a good fellow.
after din din i ran on a bike trail, then hung out with bryan for a bit. now i'm trying to sleep but i can't because it's thunderstorming out and i LOVE thunderstorms!!!! ahhh!
plus i realized that i almost forgot to blog. but obviously i didn't completely forget because here i am, blogging! =]
welllllll, zat is all!! ima go watch this t-storm now. gute nacht!!
Friday, July 9, 2010
day 40
alright yall
today we set up and painted the fields. the volunteers we had were really helpful and all....but they kept talking to laura and i like we had never done a tournament before. they were giving us the most obvious pointers. haha we were just like "oh, ok. thanks." but really we were thinking "uhh yeah duh."
anyway, one of the volunteers has a pool. she told us about this stupid pool ALL day. finally, when she was telling us she had a pool for like the 40th time, laura goes "oh, you have a pool?" hahahahahaha i almost shot gatorade out of my nose. i tried to play it off like it was just a sneeze though. i don't think it worked very well.
then, while unloading tables, laura jammed her thumb. wimp.
we were done around 4-ish in the afternoon, so we came back to the hotel for like 10 min before the jif delivery guy finally called to say he was here to drop off the jif (he was supposed to come around noon). soooo we went back to the fields, unloaded jif, and then came back to the hotel again to shower and schtuff before dinner. we ate at ruby tuesdays and we had the best waitress EVER! shout out to the one and only alyssa bergman!! =]
at dinner, i also ran into deidre bergman, ericka bergman, and melissa petersen! so that was a pleasant surprise! :)
after din din, i went to hang out with jordan grubaugh - we watched a softball game and chatted about life. haha she's awful at keeping book though so.....that's that.
um after the game, i went to e-mart's house to visit him, ash-hole, and t-mart. i also met a guy named harvey (he plays football with e-mart and t-mart) so yay for new friends :] haha
and nowwwww i'm back at the room, ready for bed. gotta get up at 6 in the mornin! oy!
today we set up and painted the fields. the volunteers we had were really helpful and all....but they kept talking to laura and i like we had never done a tournament before. they were giving us the most obvious pointers. haha we were just like "oh, ok. thanks." but really we were thinking "uhh yeah duh."
anyway, one of the volunteers has a pool. she told us about this stupid pool ALL day. finally, when she was telling us she had a pool for like the 40th time, laura goes "oh, you have a pool?" hahahahahaha i almost shot gatorade out of my nose. i tried to play it off like it was just a sneeze though. i don't think it worked very well.
then, while unloading tables, laura jammed her thumb. wimp.
we were done around 4-ish in the afternoon, so we came back to the hotel for like 10 min before the jif delivery guy finally called to say he was here to drop off the jif (he was supposed to come around noon). soooo we went back to the fields, unloaded jif, and then came back to the hotel again to shower and schtuff before dinner. we ate at ruby tuesdays and we had the best waitress EVER! shout out to the one and only alyssa bergman!! =]
at dinner, i also ran into deidre bergman, ericka bergman, and melissa petersen! so that was a pleasant surprise! :)
after din din, i went to hang out with jordan grubaugh - we watched a softball game and chatted about life. haha she's awful at keeping book though so.....that's that.
um after the game, i went to e-mart's house to visit him, ash-hole, and t-mart. i also met a guy named harvey (he plays football with e-mart and t-mart) so yay for new friends :] haha
and nowwwww i'm back at the room, ready for bed. gotta get up at 6 in the mornin! oy!
Thursday, July 8, 2010
day 39
sooooooooooo.....
as laura said, we've been home since tuesday (june 29) afternoon. we just couldn't say anything til friday when she went to surprise kyle.
basically, i was home for just over a week and i hung out with friends and familia.....had bunches of fun and....now we're back on the road. kind of. haha this weekend's tourney is in lincoln, so we're still close to home. tomorrow we'll set up the fields and paint the fields and all that jazz. so that's about it for now! sorry for the lack of details over the past week!
nighty night!
as laura said, we've been home since tuesday (june 29) afternoon. we just couldn't say anything til friday when she went to surprise kyle.
basically, i was home for just over a week and i hung out with friends and familia.....had bunches of fun and....now we're back on the road. kind of. haha this weekend's tourney is in lincoln, so we're still close to home. tomorrow we'll set up the fields and paint the fields and all that jazz. so that's about it for now! sorry for the lack of details over the past week!
nighty night!
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Day 34
Soooo the reason that we haven't been writing in this blog for a couple of days is because I went to Rapid City to surprise Kyle for his 21st birthday which was today! I told him I had a tournament in Las Vegas this weekend (which we were supposed to but after some great negotiating skills we got out of it) but really we've been off of work since Tuesday afternoon which is when we got home from Bettendorf. So let me fill you up to speed on what went on these last couple of days. After we got home from the Ohio weekend, I dropped Shan off at her house and then went to my own house. It felt so weird to be home again. On the way home we had received information about a possible truck switch. As in we would switch from Ryder to Penske and have to switch out EVERYTHING from one truck to the other and repack it all. As you might have guessed, me and Shannon complained about it for majority of the way home to each other. However, Wednesday morning we received more information that we did NOT have to switch out trucks!!! But that we did have to fix our generators. I called at least 30 places on Wednesday and that is not exaggerated one bit. All the places wanted to charge a $30 estimate fee. Me, being the money saving genius that I am, influenced my boss on what a waste of money it would be to have to go through with their 3 estimate policy. I found one place in Treynor that would estimate for free. Yet, that still wasn't good enough for the company. It is now Sunday and I still have not gotten the ok from the head honchos to start ordering parts. Apparently it doesn't matter that 2 out of our 3 generators are broken. Or that we have a tournament this coming weekend that we need them for. Or that this is holiday weekend so no places are going to be open till Tuesday. Or that it takes at least 3 days for the parts to come in plus another day or two for the labor to occur. So yeah, hopefully we won't have to inflate that stupid soccer ball inflatable for this weekend since we won't have any generators to use. Anyways, I flew out of Omaha on Friday morning and got to Rapid City in the afternoon. I basically just bonded with his parents until he got home from work. He was speechless when he saw me sitting in his kitchen. It was awesome!!!!! We just hung around his house Friday night and watched She's out of my league. It was predictable but comical. Then Saturday we went cliff jumping at Dakota Point which is in the Black Hills. It was the first time I've ever gone cliff jumping and it was soooooo much fun. I got a HUGE rush off of it. We just did the small one (25 feet) but next time I'm hoping to go to the 40 ft one. Before I went, I wanted to go off the 90 ft but after seeing it, there is no way I will do it. Not because of the height but because you have to jump out at least 7 feet from the cliff in order to not hit the rocks at the bottom. NO thank you! I'll stick with the ones that I can just walk off of. The rest of the day, we ran errands and worked out, watched another movie (The Crazies), and called it a night. This morning, we got up and went to church. It was awesome since I hadn't gone this whole summer because of work. Kyle wasn't too happy about it but oh well ;) Then we went to brunch at the Country Club with his grandparents and just hung around the house until his family all came over. I got to meet two of his cousins and an aunt and uncle. Food was delicious and Fay (his madre) made this excellent peanut buster dessert. SOOOOOO GOOD! That's about all the main exciting points that you have missed so Ky wouldn't have any idea about me coming. I fly back home tomorrow and then we have Lincoln this weekend. I'm not too sure what Shan has been doing without me, but I'm sure she's been loving being at home.
-Laura
-Laura
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