After many sleepless nights writing papers, making powerpoints and trying to solve the mystery that is Global Information Systems, I have rewarded myself with a vacation. In my own opinion it was very earned.
Friday afternoon I sent off with three girls from my Frisbee team en route to Nashville, Tennessee. Fourteen and a half hours of car ride and only stopping for the bathroom souls earn you an additional vacation.
My mom dropped off snacks for me. And by snacks I mean baby carrots, apples and oranges. We all shared snacks, but the girls were less willing to eat my health fair as I was to eat their cookies.
We made great time and got in after only thirteen hours, saving ourselves time and sanity. We met up with the rest of our team at a very shady days inn off the freeway. The steps to our room are rusting out, and our neighbors watched us arrive with their door open and chain smoking. The lot was crowded with double wide trucks and rusted out cars. We made our way past our neighbors and set up camp, but not before I accidentally set off the car alarm, waking every soul for miles. I'm sure even the deaf were bothered by my late night intrusion.
A mere four hours later we were awoken from our pitiful slumber. It was time to seize the day and play Frisbee. We're called the ninjas but moved as sloths, startled and not awake.
Piling back into the Subaru, five tired ladies trekked through a barely awake town to Vanderbilt University.
Twenty four women's teams prepared for battle. Sweat and sunshine drove us down the field for our first game. With an easy victory, we fought twice more, winning those games as well. Fresh from victory we squared up against our rivals, the Bella donas. They hail from Madison Wisconsin and the excitement is rising higher than the temperature.
As the sun beat down on us, we stripped of our warm layers, fighting the sweat as much as the other team. We went point for point until half. Then they scored six times to our one. We kept pushing until we scored four on them.
Two more points for them sealed our fate. We had lost, but fought hard. With a smile on our faces we proudly marched back to the hotel, where we eagerly await our games tomorrow.
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