About a month ago I took an awesome trip to St. Louis! I went there for a volleyball tournament. At first the trip was really boring, because it was a 6 hour drive through endless roads with trees, trees, and more trees! Not only was it boring to look through the windows, but my phone and iPod was dying; so I had to listen to my parent’s choice of oldies music! So as you can imagine I was pretty happy when we got to the hotel!
We stayed at the Pear Tree, which was a really nice hotel right by the Union Station, the Convention Center, and the Arch! We got a big room so that the team could hang in my room during our breaks during the tournament! They had nice breakfasts in the morning that we would eat before the games.
Before you go on to read about my great vacation, you should know some back ground information on my team. We started off with 10 players at the beginning of the season, but our team was accident prone. Our lebaro (best passer on the team that is allowed to come in for any back row player without it being counted as a sub) is Bernie. Sadly, after our 2nd tournament she had serious back problems; and was not allowed to play for the rest of the season (6 months)!!!! So then we were down to only 9 players, but the numbers keep changing because people keep on getting sick and injured. Luckily every one but Bernie was allowed to play this tournament!
On the first day we won all of our games. Most of the teams we played were pretty easy, so it was fun to get to run some pikes, slides, ones, and get to switch around in positions! After celebrating our wins that day, we decided to go to the Union Station!
The Union Station used to be an old railroad station back in the 1900's, but is now full of stores and restronts. My favorite part, and almost anyone’s favorite part, was the Fugery. The Fugery is a place where they make awesome fuge!!! You get to seen every step of the fuge making! Not only do they just make fuge but they sing too! They sing songs bout fuge and interact with the people watching. My favorite singer that worked there was T-pain! (Well that what he said his name was.) He was super funny and was a wicked singer! So of cores everyone on my team including me bough some fuge!!!!
That night we had team bonding!!! First we did blind make up! We each had a partner and did their makeup blind folded! My partner was Olivia and she made my face look like a total wreck! But I made her face a mess too! Then we did blind hair styles! Olivia did mine really crazy, and it made tons of tangles in my hair! Then we had to dress our partner in toilet paper and try to make shoes, jersey, and knee pads out of it! It was so messy but fun!
On the 2nd day of our tunement we got to go into the gold bracket! We had to play the West Virginia Cherry Bombers to decide who won the 13 year old gold division. We were all pumped up, when our setter, Rayanne, seriously hurt her knee and could not play the championship match!!!! So we had to switch around our positions and had a girl named Brenna be our new setter. At first Brenna's was only having a little trouble, but she pulled it together and we won the 1st set by 10 points! The 2nd match however is a different story. Each set is played to 25, but you have to win by 2 points, so it can over 25. The other team started getting in their grove and played much better this set. The score would go 24-25, 25-25, 26-25, 26-26, and so on! So the score was 28-27 us, and after the ball was on our side we got a dig then Brenna set our newest player (Bailey who just started playing volleyball this year and was already really good for just starting) was set and she hit the ball and got us the winning point! We were all super happy because we go shinny gold metals!
After our win we wanted to go to one last place; that of curse was the Arch! The tickets were sold out so we didn't get to go up to the top (which honestly I was very happy because I am very afraid of heights) so we went under the arch to the museum! We didn’t really care to learn about the history so we just took pictures with the statues and dead animals! Also we carved our team name into the arch! We wrote "Mava 13 Red Trip to St. Louis 2010!" I felt like such a rebel writing on a fancy statue!
We stayed at the Pear Tree, which was a really nice hotel right by the Union Station, the Convention Center, and the Arch! We got a big room so that the team could hang in my room during our breaks during the tournament! They had nice breakfasts in the morning that we would eat before the games.
Before you go on to read about my great vacation, you should know some back ground information on my team. We started off with 10 players at the beginning of the season, but our team was accident prone. Our lebaro (best passer on the team that is allowed to come in for any back row player without it being counted as a sub) is Bernie. Sadly, after our 2nd tournament she had serious back problems; and was not allowed to play for the rest of the season (6 months)!!!! So then we were down to only 9 players, but the numbers keep changing because people keep on getting sick and injured. Luckily every one but Bernie was allowed to play this tournament!
On the first day we won all of our games. Most of the teams we played were pretty easy, so it was fun to get to run some pikes, slides, ones, and get to switch around in positions! After celebrating our wins that day, we decided to go to the Union Station!
The Union Station used to be an old railroad station back in the 1900's, but is now full of stores and restronts. My favorite part, and almost anyone’s favorite part, was the Fugery. The Fugery is a place where they make awesome fuge!!! You get to seen every step of the fuge making! Not only do they just make fuge but they sing too! They sing songs bout fuge and interact with the people watching. My favorite singer that worked there was T-pain! (Well that what he said his name was.) He was super funny and was a wicked singer! So of cores everyone on my team including me bough some fuge!!!!
That night we had team bonding!!! First we did blind make up! We each had a partner and did their makeup blind folded! My partner was Olivia and she made my face look like a total wreck! But I made her face a mess too! Then we did blind hair styles! Olivia did mine really crazy, and it made tons of tangles in my hair! Then we had to dress our partner in toilet paper and try to make shoes, jersey, and knee pads out of it! It was so messy but fun!
On the 2nd day of our tunement we got to go into the gold bracket! We had to play the West Virginia Cherry Bombers to decide who won the 13 year old gold division. We were all pumped up, when our setter, Rayanne, seriously hurt her knee and could not play the championship match!!!! So we had to switch around our positions and had a girl named Brenna be our new setter. At first Brenna's was only having a little trouble, but she pulled it together and we won the 1st set by 10 points! The 2nd match however is a different story. Each set is played to 25, but you have to win by 2 points, so it can over 25. The other team started getting in their grove and played much better this set. The score would go 24-25, 25-25, 26-25, 26-26, and so on! So the score was 28-27 us, and after the ball was on our side we got a dig then Brenna set our newest player (Bailey who just started playing volleyball this year and was already really good for just starting) was set and she hit the ball and got us the winning point! We were all super happy because we go shinny gold metals!
After our win we wanted to go to one last place; that of curse was the Arch! The tickets were sold out so we didn't get to go up to the top (which honestly I was very happy because I am very afraid of heights) so we went under the arch to the museum! We didn’t really care to learn about the history so we just took pictures with the statues and dead animals! Also we carved our team name into the arch! We wrote "Mava 13 Red Trip to St. Louis 2010!" I felt like such a rebel writing on a fancy statue!
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