Yesterday all us Pacific girls managed to get to the airport and onto our planes. It was one of the least complicated travel scenarios for rugby yet. On the plane Carter and I spent our time working on the lineout plays, by writing them out onto the newspaper since neither one of us thought to bring the sheet in our carry-on. When we got to MN we took the airport shuttle out to our hotel and picked up the Atlanta contingent on the way. Then we had a little down time before heading out to a little light practice to work out the kinks of travel and get the blood flowing. As usual the game of touch got a little more forceful, which was the sign that it was time to split and work forwrds and backs stuff. We spent some time working out lineout movement and then just got some time to run around together. All in all it was just nice to be playing with everyone again after the hiatus since Stanford.
Back at the hotel we showered ate our Chipotle dinner and hung out exchanging water bottles - each player decorated a water bottle for one of her teammates to have for the tour. We had a meeting at 7:30 with Trie to find out about the opportunity to participate in a research study before we watched the NZ-England match from last fall. I was shocked when KTP said that breakfast was at 8am and that we didn't have to meet for practice until 9:30am... that's virtually noon for rugby tours. After the videos it was time to come back and sleep after sort-of-sleeping in the airport thursday night. I also spent some time posting the rest of the pictures from our Boulder trip online.
This morning, par for the course, the first people at breakfast were 5 front row players. We know when there's food. We can sense it on our radar. So the conversation stopped and we ate to our hearts' content and were done before most of the backline showed up. I figured I had some time before practice so I'd get this started so as to not fall behind within a day of getting here... so that's it for now.
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