VDay Bash in B’ham

Posted in Uncategorized on Feb 09, 2008

for anyone who’s not aware, i am no longer coaching a 13 year old volleyball team. nope, i’ve moved up to 17’s.

soooo, i spent the weekend in bham for a volleyball tournament. the team was riding high off our victory in chattanooga (against 18’s teams no less) and looking forward to this tournament. it started off with gena and i stuck in a traffic jam on the way over at like 7:30 in the morning. i got out to investigate and had gotten about a mile down the road when the traffic started to loosen up. this led to me sprinting back down the side of the highway towards gena’s car. after waking up two different truckers along the way, i got back to gena right about the time she was picking up speed. we had a pretty good first day of the tournament and then went to the zoo. these photos and videos are from that zoo trip.

jen and angela taunt some type of exotic fowl before we even get started.

here a druskat has sprouted from jordan’s hair.

and here our girls are seen reading the “don’t feed the giraffes” sign.

um, ok, maybe they weren’t reading the sign, after all.

they don’t tend to follow rules as well as these two who were very careful not to cross the barrier.

and here’s one of our players (ali) with an (ali)gator. i know it’s a terrible joke, but that’s all i got.

and here is the requisite team photo

unfortunately the 2nd day did not go as well and we were put out in the first round of the tournament. : ( hopefully we’ll turn it around in the 2nd half of our season!

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