Nationals

it was the best of time, it was the worst of time... ha! sorry, i just felt like it. so, this post will be all about nationals. if you have no interest in ultimate (frisbee for those of you who are wondering) stop reading now. otherwise, enjoy!

so, my trip began with a late flight out of perth. we arrived at the melbourne airport at around 11pm. correction: we arrived at avalon airport at that time. correction: we arrive to the avalon barn at 11pm. yes, i mean that in all sincerity. we got off the plane and i looked at my friend amanda and said "this looks like a barn". insert laugh here. lo and behold! it was a barn. i mention i need to go the washroom (there is a point here) and amanda says "it's probably outside" and lo and behold! it was outside. when we caught the shuttle out of there, we were ligitimately in the middle of nowhere. mental note, only fly into avalon airport to save cash and if you have lots of time.

we arrived at our hotel around 1am. rough, when you have to play 3 games of ultimate starting at 9 am. that morning, it happened to be pouring rain. and i mean pouring. we warmed up in the rain (me in my poncho...c'est super pa!). thankfully, the rain stopped just on time for the game, and didn't show it's face again while we played. hoorah.

we played 9 agmes in 3 days. long story short, we had many hard fought games. we did well and took all the teams to the time cap (not point cap). we placed 12th, which considering our entire team had never stepped on the field together until sunday morning at nationals, we did pretty well. and now, we're all fired up for next year, right ladies?!

i managed to score some points...thanks anna and viv!

the weather held out for the week (other then the first day AM), which is good, considering melbourne is similar to vancouver and rains a lot come winter (which we are heading into right now). i unfortunately didn't have time to explore melbourne while i was there, because we were in bundora (which would be like arnprior to ottawa). it was pretty much hotel-field-hotel.

while in melbourne, i was taking "australian lessons" from my teammates. expect another lesson in aussie language and pronunciation soon!

since i've arrived back in perth, we've been pretty busy. most importantly, john got to go see the fremantle dockers play adelaide today (aussie rules football)...in a corporate box, thanks to one of our neighbours. eventually i'll get him on here to post a message...perhaps he'll tell you about the game.

i would also like to mention that yesterday, april 28th, we went to the beach to hang out. yup. the end of april and we were on the beach. it only takes 10 mins to bike...you should all come visit....

xo