Just over a week ago we made our way down to Wright State in Ohio. That’s an 8-hour bus ride - talk about uncomfortable. We all slept for a good amount of time before Susie woke us all up to go eat at an Applebee’s. A bunch of us did the 2 for $20 deal they have there. If you do not know about this deal, you should - it’s basically amazing. You get your choice of two entrées and one appetizer for only 20 dollars!!! Talk about sweet.
Since most of us did this deal, we all pretended to be on dates with each other. This is normal behavior. And if you know our team, you know that A) we have no manners (aka talking with food in our mouths causing us to spit food across the table) and B) that most of us suffer from voice immodulation (aka screaming aka using an outside voice when we should be using an inside voice) when we are together. There were a couple people in the restaurant that didn’t look like they cared much for our disease and basically applauded when we left the building.
We got back on the bus and played a round of charades. For this game we made teams the upper class versus the younger class. To put it blatantly, the younger class was just…bad. They got a couple of words, but we basically kicked their butts. Aside from a couple of times that our bus driver almost got into an accident, we arrived safely at the Fairfield Inn in Ohio where we got greeted with warm chocolate chip cookies that were gone in about two seconds because we are fat.
We then proceeded to our rooms to get changed into clothes for our pool workout. We all got in the pool and cranked out that workout like it was nobody’s business. Then we got the heck out of that contaminated pool that gave many people rashes.
The next day we had some study time and then made our way to Wright State where we did amazing and beat them in three. We tried to stick around to see some of the Disney characters (they were hosting the Disney on Ice musical that weekend). The only people lucky enough to see any characters were the coaches. They saw Minnie. and Mickey. So ticked that we missed out.
(Editor’s note – the authors used another word for ticked and the fuddy-duddy editor decided it wasn’t for our younger audience. Not sure why other things are let to slide and that was not, but the editor gets the final say and he’s just in one of those do-good moods tonight.)
Saturday morning we drove to Butler University. We ate somewhere and it was yummy. It was something like Moe and Larry’s ... or it might not have been named after the stooges … either way, it was pretty delicious. We all made our way back to the bus and Morgan told Lindsey that Sam and Mary Beth had stopped into a store so they could use the restroom quick. Lindsey forgot and told the bus driver that we were ‘good to go’ and as we started driving we all looked out the windows and saw both Sam and Mary Beth sprinting after the bus, wailing their arms. Too bad the bus is basically sound proof so we couldn’t hear them yelling. We did end up stopping for them though.
When we got to Butler there were many, many people there tailgating for their football game since it was homecoming weekend. People must have been drunk because most sober people don’t just walk into a ginormous bus going five miles per hour. Anyway, we ended up beating Butler in three games, got the heck out of there and got home.
12-0!
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Biz and Anna aka Aniz aka Banna
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Splinters And Comebacks
After finishing the first half of the season 8-0, we had a full week of practice before heading to Loyola on Friday to start our second round through conference.
Where do we even begin?!?! We arrived and walked around for a while in confusion. They are under construction for their new gym, so our locker room and the training room was in the building that was undergoing construction, yet we had to play in a completely different building, and it was Loyola’s Recreational Gym. There was no locker room for us there, so we held our team meetings (before, during, and after the game) in the gym’s closet, which held most of the equipment (talk about hospitality). Evan even got a picture of us during our ‘focus time’ before the match, check it out.
We used the recreational facility's public bathroom to change into our uniforms for the game and then headed up the stairs to see what the gym was like. For some reason it took us by surprise. We had a while before serve and pass so we sat on their wooded bleachers trying to keep the splinters out of our butts. “The same carpenter that built Cleveland’s locker room must have put together these appalling, splinter threatening bleachers.” (Quoted by Lori Price—thanks!).
In these pictures you can see Morgan holding a ginormous splinter, and these horrifying bleachers. Why do people think that leaving wood like that is ok? At least sand or stain it!
While we were waiting to warm up there were many hard-working men trying to get the ‘gym’ suitable for a match. They were rolling up dividers and somehow a ginormous cooler of ice had clasped onto the bottom of one and dropped all over the floor. Thank goodness for towels and the custodian, not that we’d be surprised if they just left it there for the game. We ended up winning in four (yikes) and got the heck out of there.
The next morning we were supposed to get on the bus to go to Green Bay by 10:30. All of us were ready and waiting by 10:25 … then 10:30 rolled around … then 10:40 … finally by 10:50 the bus decided to show up. That 20 minutes of uncertainty definitely put Susie and Evan on edge, and nobody wanted to get in the way after that.
We made our way to Boston Market (aka thanksgiving feast fast food style) and got our food to go so that we could head to Green Bay without any more delays. We were all on the bus waiting for Susie and Evan to finish getting their food when out of nowhere, the bus shut off. Most people wouldn’t think this was a big deal but all we heard was the bus driver say “you’ve got to be kidding me,” and all of our faces dropped. What else could go wrong? She got it started up and it shut off again. Susie got onto the bus, counted us, and told the bus driver we were ready. All of us crossed our fingers as she turned the ignition, and the bus started right up and off we went.
We arrived in Green Bay and started off ... let’s just say bad. We were down 2 games to 0. Somehow we found ourselves within the third game and came back and won the match in 5.
Although the win wasn’t pretty and Susie was definitely a little off-kilter without her wing-woman Lindsey to calm her down, we are relieved to have Lindsey back with us. All our prayers are with her family during this time.
10 AND 0 WAY TO GO!!!!!
See ya’ll soooooon.
Biz and Anna aka Banna aka Aniz
Where do we even begin?!?! We arrived and walked around for a while in confusion. They are under construction for their new gym, so our locker room and the training room was in the building that was undergoing construction, yet we had to play in a completely different building, and it was Loyola’s Recreational Gym. There was no locker room for us there, so we held our team meetings (before, during, and after the game) in the gym’s closet, which held most of the equipment (talk about hospitality). Evan even got a picture of us during our ‘focus time’ before the match, check it out.
We used the recreational facility's public bathroom to change into our uniforms for the game and then headed up the stairs to see what the gym was like. For some reason it took us by surprise. We had a while before serve and pass so we sat on their wooded bleachers trying to keep the splinters out of our butts. “The same carpenter that built Cleveland’s locker room must have put together these appalling, splinter threatening bleachers.” (Quoted by Lori Price—thanks!).
In these pictures you can see Morgan holding a ginormous splinter, and these horrifying bleachers. Why do people think that leaving wood like that is ok? At least sand or stain it!
While we were waiting to warm up there were many hard-working men trying to get the ‘gym’ suitable for a match. They were rolling up dividers and somehow a ginormous cooler of ice had clasped onto the bottom of one and dropped all over the floor. Thank goodness for towels and the custodian, not that we’d be surprised if they just left it there for the game. We ended up winning in four (yikes) and got the heck out of there.
The next morning we were supposed to get on the bus to go to Green Bay by 10:30. All of us were ready and waiting by 10:25 … then 10:30 rolled around … then 10:40 … finally by 10:50 the bus decided to show up. That 20 minutes of uncertainty definitely put Susie and Evan on edge, and nobody wanted to get in the way after that.
We made our way to Boston Market (aka thanksgiving feast fast food style) and got our food to go so that we could head to Green Bay without any more delays. We were all on the bus waiting for Susie and Evan to finish getting their food when out of nowhere, the bus shut off. Most people wouldn’t think this was a big deal but all we heard was the bus driver say “you’ve got to be kidding me,” and all of our faces dropped. What else could go wrong? She got it started up and it shut off again. Susie got onto the bus, counted us, and told the bus driver we were ready. All of us crossed our fingers as she turned the ignition, and the bus started right up and off we went.
We arrived in Green Bay and started off ... let’s just say bad. We were down 2 games to 0. Somehow we found ourselves within the third game and came back and won the match in 5.
Although the win wasn’t pretty and Susie was definitely a little off-kilter without her wing-woman Lindsey to calm her down, we are relieved to have Lindsey back with us. All our prayers are with her family during this time.
10 AND 0 WAY TO GO!!!!!
See ya’ll soooooon.
Biz and Anna aka Banna aka Aniz
Monday, October 3, 2011
A Weekend In Ohio
The VolleyBlog returns with insights from Anna Bartz and Elizabeth Egerer after a weekend road trip to Ohio
This past weekend the Panthers had matches against Cleveland and Youngstown State in Ohio. That’s an 8-10-hour drive - talk about horrible. Lucky for us we got to skip out on the whole long, annoying bus ride together and hop two 9-passenger baby planes for a traveling time of one and a half hours one-way. If that doesn’t scream spoiled, I do not know what does. The flight to Cleveland was nothing out of the ordinary as Susie was close to tossing her cookies and a couple of laughing attacks that ended in tears (happy tears of course because what other kind is there?)
Anywho, when we arrived to Cleveland’s mini-airport it was raining, as it would for the entire rest of the weekend. Inside the airport we ate the entire large bowl of lifesavers in the lobby while we waited for a shuttle. Numzers. We took a shuttle over to the Hilton Garden Inn (what a lovely place). On the shuttle ride, the driver told Susie and some of the girls about how many famous people had sat in that same passenger seat… including Justin Beaver and Justin Timberland just to name a few.
When we arrived to the hotel we immediately walked over to Subway to have a “snack,” aka dinner, aka a meal an hour before the pregame meal. Don’t worry, nobody was hurt in overstuffing their faces. After we ate at subway we had about an hour to jump on the beds and have a couple of pillow fights before we were on our way to the Winking Lizard restaurant for our pregame meal. There is actually a ginormous real live lizard in there, however the winking part was up for debate. Talk about false advertisement.
It wasn’t long before we were on our way to Cleveland’s gymnasium. Since it was raining out, Susie thought it would best to sprint up several stairs to get inside (skipping quite a few here and there to increase her PR). Turns out that was actually a horrible decision compared to just walking into the gym because she wiped out halfway up those concrete stairs, leaving her with a raspberry and a wet pair of jeans. Lucky for her, she saved herself from a broken wrist with the ability to roll out of the tumble like only a true volleyball player could.
Once we were all inside a nice man took us downstairs to our dungeon-like locker room, filled with plywood lockers that were only there just to give you slivers (they could have at least sanded or stained them). It didn’t matter that they tried to hold us hostage and injure our silky smooth hands because we came out and killed the Vikings (aka mid-evil hairy men aka definitely not volleyball-ers) in 3.
The next morning we woke up to a delicious Hilton breakfast. Man, they have EVERTYHING. The lady even split a waffle in half so you could eat a half stack of French Toast with it (that way we weren’t limited to choosing just one). After that we crammed into a 12-seat van like a bunch of clowns in a clown car and went to Youngstown to take care of some business. We looked kind of like slugs out on the court but managed to pack up the game in three and get out of there.
Before we headed to the airport we stopped at the classiest Taco Bell. Across the street there was a puppy store (AWESOME!!!!!) Apparently some of us were being a little too loud for the people in Taco Bell trying to have intimate, candle-lit conversations along with their dinner. Unfortunately for them, we don’t understand the whole intimate thing, so the older lady had to tell us “keep it down” three times. Apparently it is “frowned upon” to scream in public places. Who knew? Not us.
After we ate, we piled into the van and drove to the airport. A member of the team forgot what Taco Bell does to her digestion system and let one loose. We thought we would lose a few due to suffocation, but the driver and passenger were on it and had those windows down within seconds.
We finally got to the airport and some of us were lucky enough to use the GOVERNORS PLANE!!!!!!! AMAZING!!! Aside from some leftover peanuts, the plane was super clean. Well done Gov-na!
That’s all folks.
Ta-ta for now.
See ya Tuesday and Wednesday at our matches against UIC and Valpo.
-Biz and Anna, aka Banna aka Aniz
This past weekend the Panthers had matches against Cleveland and Youngstown State in Ohio. That’s an 8-10-hour drive - talk about horrible. Lucky for us we got to skip out on the whole long, annoying bus ride together and hop two 9-passenger baby planes for a traveling time of one and a half hours one-way. If that doesn’t scream spoiled, I do not know what does. The flight to Cleveland was nothing out of the ordinary as Susie was close to tossing her cookies and a couple of laughing attacks that ended in tears (happy tears of course because what other kind is there?)
Anywho, when we arrived to Cleveland’s mini-airport it was raining, as it would for the entire rest of the weekend. Inside the airport we ate the entire large bowl of lifesavers in the lobby while we waited for a shuttle. Numzers. We took a shuttle over to the Hilton Garden Inn (what a lovely place). On the shuttle ride, the driver told Susie and some of the girls about how many famous people had sat in that same passenger seat… including Justin Beaver and Justin Timberland just to name a few.
When we arrived to the hotel we immediately walked over to Subway to have a “snack,” aka dinner, aka a meal an hour before the pregame meal. Don’t worry, nobody was hurt in overstuffing their faces. After we ate at subway we had about an hour to jump on the beds and have a couple of pillow fights before we were on our way to the Winking Lizard restaurant for our pregame meal. There is actually a ginormous real live lizard in there, however the winking part was up for debate. Talk about false advertisement.
It wasn’t long before we were on our way to Cleveland’s gymnasium. Since it was raining out, Susie thought it would best to sprint up several stairs to get inside (skipping quite a few here and there to increase her PR). Turns out that was actually a horrible decision compared to just walking into the gym because she wiped out halfway up those concrete stairs, leaving her with a raspberry and a wet pair of jeans. Lucky for her, she saved herself from a broken wrist with the ability to roll out of the tumble like only a true volleyball player could.
Once we were all inside a nice man took us downstairs to our dungeon-like locker room, filled with plywood lockers that were only there just to give you slivers (they could have at least sanded or stained them). It didn’t matter that they tried to hold us hostage and injure our silky smooth hands because we came out and killed the Vikings (aka mid-evil hairy men aka definitely not volleyball-ers) in 3.
The next morning we woke up to a delicious Hilton breakfast. Man, they have EVERTYHING. The lady even split a waffle in half so you could eat a half stack of French Toast with it (that way we weren’t limited to choosing just one). After that we crammed into a 12-seat van like a bunch of clowns in a clown car and went to Youngstown to take care of some business. We looked kind of like slugs out on the court but managed to pack up the game in three and get out of there.
Before we headed to the airport we stopped at the classiest Taco Bell. Across the street there was a puppy store (AWESOME!!!!!) Apparently some of us were being a little too loud for the people in Taco Bell trying to have intimate, candle-lit conversations along with their dinner. Unfortunately for them, we don’t understand the whole intimate thing, so the older lady had to tell us “keep it down” three times. Apparently it is “frowned upon” to scream in public places. Who knew? Not us.
After we ate, we piled into the van and drove to the airport. A member of the team forgot what Taco Bell does to her digestion system and let one loose. We thought we would lose a few due to suffocation, but the driver and passenger were on it and had those windows down within seconds.
We finally got to the airport and some of us were lucky enough to use the GOVERNORS PLANE!!!!!!! AMAZING!!! Aside from some leftover peanuts, the plane was super clean. Well done Gov-na!
That’s all folks.
Ta-ta for now.
See ya Tuesday and Wednesday at our matches against UIC and Valpo.
-Biz and Anna, aka Banna aka Aniz
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