Chillin'

So we have now been in Portugal for 10 days. 5 of them pouring rain.....today being one of them. We spend hours upon hours sitting 'round hotel rooms on our computers because it's our connection to the world. Just to give you a run down of the typical "day with no play" in the world of a beach volleyball player.....so, Amanda is sitting next to me learning to crochet( I attempted to teach her), Jay is on his computer in the green chair over yonder, Heidi is talking to Steve (on her computer-he is in Paris), Wes and Alli (husband and wife-she came to visit for the week) are updating his newsletter for the fans back home in Canada......Besides Heidi and I it is an all Canadian room. Amanda, Heidi, and I joined the room to save money........Not uncommon for 8 people to share a room.....Qualifier Teams is what they call us......Actually, Canada also has to play a country quota match. Tangent-Short explanantion: Each country is allowed 4 teams that can play Qualifier or Main Draw. Canada has 7 teams that compete on the World Tour, therefore, there is always a couple country quota matches to knock out the bottom 3 teams so only 4 teams go on......did you get all that......In addition, qualifier teams get nothing paid for if they do NOT qualify. So, we all try to save mula....okay...see the pic of the rainy day........