Over the weekend I was in Arizona for a water polo tournament at Arizona State. It was a crazy whirlwind weekend, but so much fun! I flew to Vegas on Friday night after my quiz and stayed at the Paris on the strip. I only wish I had actually gotten to explore a little bit while I was there! After a few hours of sleep in my nice hotel room I headed back to the airport and flow to Phoenix. My flight arrived early and I got my rental car with no problems and headed to the hotel to meet my teammates who all arrived the day before.
On Saturday we played San Diego State and UC San Diego. We beat SDSU by one goal, and then beat UCSD in the second quarter of sudden death over time (the fourth quarter of total overtime). It was a crazy game! In between our games we also watched the ASU-UCLA varsity game and ASU beat UCLA for the first time ever. It was quite an exciting game. When all our games were over for the day we relaxed at the hotel for a bit and then all split up in cars to go get dinner. My car had Fatburger, which was delicious.
Sunday morning we started out with a hard fought game against Arizona State. W were tied through 3, but kind of fell apart in the fourth and ended up loosing by 4, which was awful. W didn't play that well, but life goes on. We played University of Arizona after that and won by two and I scored two goals in that game! After the games we went to In N Out for lunch, then hung out at a park for a while, did a little shopping where all I bought was candy (oops), and then had Whole Foods for dinner. I hung out at the hotel with my teammates until it was time to get to the airport and then returned the car and got on my red eye, which I miraculously slept the entire time on (I was dead tired).
When I got back to Detroit it was freezing (12 degrees as opposed to the 80 degrees it was in Arizona) and I was definitely not dressed for the weather. I scraped the ice off my windshields and drove myself back to Ann Arbor all before 7am. I was, of course, extremely tired at this point so I took a nap and got to class by 11am for histology.
Overall I had a great and very warm weekend! It was fun to play some new teams too. I also missed playing outside, but I don't really miss dealing with the sun in my eyes during games. Now it's onto the final week on immunology and then CFM is next week, which means Mom comes to visit a week from Thursday! So excited to see her, just wish I could see everyone else and the pups too. At least I will be in CA in August for my birthday and the beach!
Oh yea, and my summer plans fell into place on Sunday too! The director of the program I wanted to do this summer emailed me because one of my friends decided not to go and now I will be spending the summer doing work in Uganda! I'm really excited to be getting a new experience and to go to a new country and continent. Yay!
On Saturday we played San Diego State and UC San Diego. We beat SDSU by one goal, and then beat UCSD in the second quarter of sudden death over time (the fourth quarter of total overtime). It was a crazy game! In between our games we also watched the ASU-UCLA varsity game and ASU beat UCLA for the first time ever. It was quite an exciting game. When all our games were over for the day we relaxed at the hotel for a bit and then all split up in cars to go get dinner. My car had Fatburger, which was delicious.
Sunday morning we started out with a hard fought game against Arizona State. W were tied through 3, but kind of fell apart in the fourth and ended up loosing by 4, which was awful. W didn't play that well, but life goes on. We played University of Arizona after that and won by two and I scored two goals in that game! After the games we went to In N Out for lunch, then hung out at a park for a while, did a little shopping where all I bought was candy (oops), and then had Whole Foods for dinner. I hung out at the hotel with my teammates until it was time to get to the airport and then returned the car and got on my red eye, which I miraculously slept the entire time on (I was dead tired).
When I got back to Detroit it was freezing (12 degrees as opposed to the 80 degrees it was in Arizona) and I was definitely not dressed for the weather. I scraped the ice off my windshields and drove myself back to Ann Arbor all before 7am. I was, of course, extremely tired at this point so I took a nap and got to class by 11am for histology.
Overall I had a great and very warm weekend! It was fun to play some new teams too. I also missed playing outside, but I don't really miss dealing with the sun in my eyes during games. Now it's onto the final week on immunology and then CFM is next week, which means Mom comes to visit a week from Thursday! So excited to see her, just wish I could see everyone else and the pups too. At least I will be in CA in August for my birthday and the beach!
Oh yea, and my summer plans fell into place on Sunday too! The director of the program I wanted to do this summer emailed me because one of my friends decided not to go and now I will be spending the summer doing work in Uganda! I'm really excited to be getting a new experience and to go to a new country and continent. Yay!
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| My team! |
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| Basking in the Arizona sunset before I flew home |
I do love reading your blog! Some how, some way you are going to have to be able to blog from uganda (just for my sanity!!) Looking forward to visiting with you soon!
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