Checkin’ in from Bled, Slovenia! This is Jenna and Anna
reporting for duty for the daily blog. Today was a frightful, exciting,
eye-googling, and slippery day! Let us tell you about it. J
It all started with breakfast. Scrumptious bread with jelly
and hot chocolate were consumed by 13 hungry girls excited to begin another day
in Europe. As we all were filing into the breakfast nook, Jenna’s backpack full
of fun knee braces and neck pillows violently crashed into an innocent tea cup
and shattered everywhere – that was just the start of an eventful (and
frightful) morning! Soon after, the whole gang cozied up into 3 vans and Jenna
and I were in the caboose van. Before taking off, we started to buckle up and
the driver stated, “We’re in Europe, we don’t need those.” But minutes later we
realized we really did need our seatbelts. As we were pulling out into the
street (not to mention a VERY tight street) all of a sudden we heard a crash, a
pop, a rumble and a “Sheet” (Sh*t). We looked out the window in fright and realized
that we had just hit 2 vehicles and popped a tire so we needed a plan B pronto.
Jason Wudi came to the rescue with an idea for the 13 girls plus Jodi and Kim to
pack into 2 vans in order to get to the match on time. We were finally on our
way to play some volleyball in Maribor, Slovenia.
When we reached Maribor, we ate a “light snack” at the hotel
(which was also the sports complex where we competed) and prepared for our
match! We played a local club team from Maribor and finished 3-1. After losing
the first set, we redeemed ourselves with the next 3 sets and played awesome!
They were very close and nail-biting sets. Upon completing the match, we ate a
“late lunch” also at the hotel. After lunch our tour guide Henny surprised us
by taking us to a nearby mountain where we got to go down an alpine
slide/”Funbob.” Some girls held firm
onto the brake while others went down in full force. As we flew down the
hillside we were able to view the beautiful city and mountains surrounding it.
We headed back to the sports complex and boom – we got to
watch the defending National Champions. The Texas Longhorn volleyball team is
also traveling in Europe and happened to be competing against the National
Slovenia volleyball team at the same complex we played at. It was super
exciting to sit courtside and watch girls our age play at such a high level of
volleyball. We had only watched them play on TV and now they were 5 feet away
from all of us, making us feel pretty short. After watching 2 sets of the match
we departed Maribor and headed for Bled.
Upon arriving in Bled, we gawked at snow covered mountain
tops. We unloaded our bags at the hotel and ate a late supper and went for a
stroll to see a pretty lake surrounded by mountains where we were able to see
the castle lit up.
Tomorrow we will be getting our exercise on hiking through
the mountains, soakin’ up nature, and going to play another match of volleyball!
Until then my friends and family back home, Jenna and Anna are off to bed.
PEACE AND BLESSINGS.
Jenna,
ReplyDeleteJust wanted to wish you a happy birthday! What a wonderful way to spend a bithday sounds like you and the team are getting a lot of good site seeing in. Have fun
Aunt Ellie
Happy Birthday Jenna! Hope you and the rest of the team enjoy the rest of your trip.
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