For the past 3 days I've been in Ottawa. On thursday I had a game up there and my sisterhad a tournament on the thursday and continuing on the Saturday. So Ryan and I decided to stay up and watch her play. So at 9 am we headed up, and considering having two pee breaks (sorry, when nature calls, you answer it), we made it up there in great time! So we chilled at our 5* hotel, it was suprisingly cheap and my family was staying at it. Also, what fancy hotel like that doesn't have free internet, but rents out umbrella's for $65?? Cheap.
So we go and play the game, winning them all! It's good that we won this game, not only for our stats, but because we have lost several games latley and we need to get rid of the drama that's been going on. So we win, then scoot over to watch Nicole play, running into my good friend from elementry school Jamie, whise sister is also on the team. The cool thing about this tournament is that I played in this tourney years ago, and nothing has changed. I also ran into my old coach, so I was talking to him for a bit. We went to dinner, then the pool and to bed.
Friday was the big day off, so we went to the gym, then while Ryan got showerd, I walked to Tim Horton's with Jamie, catching up. Then we met with the family and walked up to the Parliment Building's, which was right up the street from the hotel. So we see them for the millionth time. Embarassing moment: My dad was joking and said we should yawn the national anthem. So I did, and walking right behing me was a bunch of security guards and I had no idea that they were there, let alone laughing at me, until everyone turned around and died laughing harder.
Next trip was back to the hotel for lunch, then we were gonna drive around the city, and see the fancy houses. We did that and also drove over the bridge to Quebec and right back. So we saw those, and I have chosen my house for when I win the lottery! (yeah right). So next was to the Rideau Canal. It was my brother's first time going on, so the men went skating and the girls watched, were all there having a good time. A tradition of going to Ottawa is having a Beaver Tail, and that tradition will never die as long as I'm going! We got our beavertails finally and enjoyed them. Chocolate Hazlenut all the way baby! Seriously, if you haven't been, go get one! Next was dinner and fun at the hotel.
Saturday morning arrived and the girls were ready to play. They won their crossover, meaning they had to play a harder team in a harder level. So for the quarter semi game, they met a rep team! (My old rep team to makes thing's more ironic). Despite being nervous, they had their time and they did great. They lost the first set, destryoed them in the second, and now taking them onto a third. The girls cam a bit short and lost, meaning they had to go home a little earlier then we had planned. But without leaving empty handed, we made a pit stop to get more beavertails, yes, I am addicted!
The ride home was definatly not like the drive here. We hit a blizzard! So we were crawling along for a good 3 hours. It took us 5 to get home. Both Ryan and I were exhausted and a little cranky at the road conditions, but we made it back. I think Chloe, our dog, missed us a bit. Congrats to the girls for a great game! You played a fantastic tourney and I'm so proud of you Nicole. You deerved a medal for sure! I love you and I'm proud of you! What a way to end your season. And reflecting on this weekend, it was much needed family time/vacation, I had a blast! Thanks for reading,
Brittany (#5)
(@TotalBlocksicle)
Sunday, January 23, 2011
Sunday, January 16, 2011
The Trip From Hell
Alright bloggers, I am officailly terrible at this, but whatever. I do when I can. So this Saturday we found ourselves in Montreal, a rival city for us. We were schedualed for a flight on Friday morning, but due to weather conditions our flight got cancelled, so that meant we were to drive. It's bad enough for us to drive down the street in this weather, but on a several hour drive, it took us forever. So at 7 pm on Friday we got on the 'partay bus' and left. And of course, Donnie Wahlberg was tweeting when I left, soon enough guys!
Fast forward to 10, we were just entering Kingston. The roads were fairly clear and only had a bit of traffic-score! But little did we know, we weren't even at Ottawa and the roads were absolutly crap! So we decided to pull over for a couple of hours so we could get some sleep. So we're at this motel in the middle of nowhere, literally, and we had to fit 4 to a room. So in mine, I had Meg, Nicole and Shrimpy. I didn't even want to check for bedbugs because I already assumed. We were grossed out completley and barley got sleep. Let's just say it was interesting.
So at 4, we got in the bus and travelled. Again, the roads were alright and we made it in time for the game. It took 7 hours to get there!!! Exhausted, we made it, and played a good game. We lost the game, and a little more then that. During the game, our girls were a little tired and fed up at eachother. We only had 7 girls there, but only 6 could play, since I'm still out on injury. Kayla flipped out on the girls and our assistant coach snapped on her, during a time-out! Kayla gave so much attitude and was so unsportsmen-like it was disgusting. I never did like her.
So at the end of the game she was yelling at us all and called out head coach Ian, who couldn't make it, to let him know she was 'resigning her position on the team'. Deep down I was thinking, good let her go, and the urge to punch her in the face. But being teh captain I was, I was holding back everyone else lol. So she storms out and went to a friends house, and I haven't talked to the bitch since, and to be honest, I don't want to. So the bus ride back was very akward and I didn't really want to say anything about it because knowing me, I would say something I would regret. And I was really missing my new hubby. What can I say? I'm a softie. Personally, when I'm mad that we lost, tired, cranky because I'm tired, frustrated because I felt helpless, in pain from injury, and dying to play, don't mess with me! And what did this chick do? That exact! But we all were. We got home at 1am Sunday.
Fast Forward to Monday night (last night). I show up at practice, and only 3 people who were there were there. And the other 3 had no idea what was going on. (Poor people, they missed the 'lovely' bonding). So we disgussed it and the drama makers weren't there. So I'm not looking forward to Wed. Today I saw the one of them, since it was tean check-up day, but she had another doctor.
Hopefully we can put this behind us and continue to have a great season, because I really want to succeed this year and keep a strong lead. Can't wait till I can play again either. And we have so many injuries! Me with an ankle, Meg & Stacey rotator cuff (had that last year), Nicole broken finger, and Kayla had a bad shoulder. So we had 4 girls playing with injuries on the weekend. Thursday's game will be interesting aswell.
But for now, I gotta get back to my email answering, stopped to re-do this blog. The first draft wasn't the nicest haha. Now that I'm more calm, I think I can say that everything was in-called for and childish. But the players were in the wrong, and to some degree so was our asst. coach. We'll see what happens. Thanks for reading! And sorry it took so long to update, I know I'm bad at it, from the mind of,
Brittany #5
(@TotalBlocksicle)
Fast forward to 10, we were just entering Kingston. The roads were fairly clear and only had a bit of traffic-score! But little did we know, we weren't even at Ottawa and the roads were absolutly crap! So we decided to pull over for a couple of hours so we could get some sleep. So we're at this motel in the middle of nowhere, literally, and we had to fit 4 to a room. So in mine, I had Meg, Nicole and Shrimpy. I didn't even want to check for bedbugs because I already assumed. We were grossed out completley and barley got sleep. Let's just say it was interesting.
So at 4, we got in the bus and travelled. Again, the roads were alright and we made it in time for the game. It took 7 hours to get there!!! Exhausted, we made it, and played a good game. We lost the game, and a little more then that. During the game, our girls were a little tired and fed up at eachother. We only had 7 girls there, but only 6 could play, since I'm still out on injury. Kayla flipped out on the girls and our assistant coach snapped on her, during a time-out! Kayla gave so much attitude and was so unsportsmen-like it was disgusting. I never did like her.
So at the end of the game she was yelling at us all and called out head coach Ian, who couldn't make it, to let him know she was 'resigning her position on the team'. Deep down I was thinking, good let her go, and the urge to punch her in the face. But being teh captain I was, I was holding back everyone else lol. So she storms out and went to a friends house, and I haven't talked to the bitch since, and to be honest, I don't want to. So the bus ride back was very akward and I didn't really want to say anything about it because knowing me, I would say something I would regret. And I was really missing my new hubby. What can I say? I'm a softie. Personally, when I'm mad that we lost, tired, cranky because I'm tired, frustrated because I felt helpless, in pain from injury, and dying to play, don't mess with me! And what did this chick do? That exact! But we all were. We got home at 1am Sunday.
Fast Forward to Monday night (last night). I show up at practice, and only 3 people who were there were there. And the other 3 had no idea what was going on. (Poor people, they missed the 'lovely' bonding). So we disgussed it and the drama makers weren't there. So I'm not looking forward to Wed. Today I saw the one of them, since it was tean check-up day, but she had another doctor.
Hopefully we can put this behind us and continue to have a great season, because I really want to succeed this year and keep a strong lead. Can't wait till I can play again either. And we have so many injuries! Me with an ankle, Meg & Stacey rotator cuff (had that last year), Nicole broken finger, and Kayla had a bad shoulder. So we had 4 girls playing with injuries on the weekend. Thursday's game will be interesting aswell.
But for now, I gotta get back to my email answering, stopped to re-do this blog. The first draft wasn't the nicest haha. Now that I'm more calm, I think I can say that everything was in-called for and childish. But the players were in the wrong, and to some degree so was our asst. coach. We'll see what happens. Thanks for reading! And sorry it took so long to update, I know I'm bad at it, from the mind of,
Brittany #5
(@TotalBlocksicle)
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