Semi's!

Good news! I made it to the semi-finals of my last tournament! I played with Heather Hughes who was a friend of Pao's on the National (indoor) team. It was a ton of fun and a crazy long day! We got there to check-in at 8:15 because the website said if you weren't there by 8:30 you had a $10 late fee added onto the registration fee. Well, at 9:30 everyone had finally showed up and checked in, so we started playing around 9:45. We played three matches pretty much back to back. They were all great matches! Pretty good competition all day long. After our first three matches we had about a 2 hour break (we got the break since we were undefeated, woohoo!). While we were waiting around to play we noticed two pirate ships out in the water a little south of where we were (Redondo and we were in Manhattan Beach). We had also been hearing cannon type shots all morning! Well... apparently, the ships out in the water were the ships from Pirates of the Caribbean AND they were filming for movie number 4!!!! How cool is that??? We got to watch Pirates of the Caribbean 4 being filmed!! Some of the other people at the tournament knew all of this because they had filmed parts of the first 3 in the South Bay as well and they keep the ships in the King Harbor marina which is in Redondo. So after our really exciting break, we started to warm up for our 4th and final match. As we began play I realized the net was 2 or 3 inches high but the sun was also setting so we had no time to fix it! Anyway, we ended up losing in two but it was still a fun day over all! And, we won $50 each for finishing 3rd! Haha, woohoo!

Hope you're all doing well! :)