What a Day!!!!!!

It was sooooo great to see all the girls at camp last night. I truly tried to make it back in time to pop my head in and see hard girls at work. And, coaches hard at work. What a long day of travel, but a very happy ending. Station Sushi is a great way to end the day!!!!!

London to LAX

After messaging Guy, we hopped on the tube (London underground) and went straight to South Kensington. Guy met us there and took us straight to our hotel. Heidi and I tidied up and then we all went a walking in London. Never been there. It was spectacular. We saw some museums (dont remember the names), strolled by Harrod's and then stopped for a nibble at Harvey Nichols. Learned what snogging is. After a lite snack, Guy took us to the chicken place. What a delight. One of the greatest meals in a long time. After eats, straight to the hotel and asleep we went. We woke to one of the GREATEST breakfast buffets ever. Then walked to the tube, and "tubed" it to Heathrow only to be stopped in our tracks.
As we proceeded to check in, the ticket lady told us our tickets were exchanged, but not confirmed. WHAT??????did that mean. Well, we see you have a ticket change, but no confirmation on the changes.....WHAT??????So, what we thought was a few hours wait for a flight tunred into an eternity of waiting to find out if we were going to get on the London-LAX direct flight in AA 137. We waited and waited, peeps boarded the plane, others were making seat changes......then," ms. pascua, ms. Iustre, please proceed to the ticket counter...you got on, enjoy your flight" We were enroute to LAX!!!!!!!! GUY-You Rock. We are home safe. Thanks for everything!

Out of Aland

After a devastating loss to the Spaniards:( we decided it was time to start the journey home....(we actually has been planning this trip home for some time, but I never blogged it cuz i was trying to surprise a friend) so, we hopped on the 11:45pm ferry from Aland to Helsinki, getting us to Helsinki at 10 am the next day. Helsinki is the capitol city of Finland. We trammed, then bussed to the airport and proceeded immediately to the Finnair ticket counter. With puppy dog eyes, we asked "can we get on the next flight out of here?" With much finnagling, we were able to hop on the 2:05 pm flight to London, Heathrow...arrived at 3:10pm. Now what? Our connecting flight to LAX....yes, LAX....was 11:25 am the following day. So, we did what anyone would do, phoned the only person we knew in London, Guy Perry.

Poop

We lost our second match today against Spain. It was not pretty. We did not play terrible, but not well enough to beat them. They are a consistent team and served us tough. Now, we take a breather and come back tough in Russia...........Who knows...we may get lucky tonight in the Lucky Losers draw.

Solana Beach Campers

Hello to everyone checking this out. I am so sad I am missing camp right now, but I know you are having fun. Keep working hard and feel free to drop me an email at pascua77@gmail.com. Would be great to hear from you. Miss San Diego tremendously and cannot wait to get back there.

Aland, Finland

So, it is 11:30 am here, we just won our first qualification match (vs. Finlad) and have one more against Spain at 3pm. If we win that, we are in the Main Draw. We are the 9th seed and they are the 8seed, so it should be a battle. Love those. Let you know how we do.

Turku-Day 2

Played 4 matches now. It is 2pm on Saturday. We are 2-2. Don't ask who we lost 2. so we have 1 more and then maybe we are in the finals. To give you an idea of the situation, there is no prize money. We played 2 matches yesterday after a 620 am flight and may have 4 today. Tomorrow, exhibition match....just for fun. so, we pretty much are not too into this, just good exercise, touching the ball and soaking up the sun. Here are a few pics of the situation. Later.........