By:  Rachel “Z” and Amanda 

If we thought yesterday morning was an early wake-up call, today was even earlier!  After a quick breakfast and sudden change of departure time, we were out at the fields 30 minutes earlier than we had expected to be.  After an emotional and hard-fought game, we rushed back to the hotel.  We had 25 minutes for everyone to shower and be ready to walk out the door to go to a luncheon with our sister team, the Carmel Commotion.  A great meal aside, we had an emotional few minutes with the girls, their parents, coaches and their club staff.   As a group with both teams united, we took some pictures and had some laughs until it began to rain.  In order to keep from melting, we headed back to our hotel for some rest before our team meeting.  

Due to having limited TV channel selections, our room proceeded to watch 2 hours of “Murder She Wrote” (a classic and highly recommended by us).  Because our team meeting was scheduled to take place in the hallway at 8PM, we were forced to miss the crucial final 2 minutes of the show!  We will never know if Mrs. Fletcher (not related to our Rachael) caught the bad guys but given her past experiences, we assume that she did. 

After our team meeting (which started 5 minutes late, I might add), we drank some smoothies and got changed for our pool workout.  We spent 20 minutes in the pool stretching and testing our synchronized swimming abilities.  I believe that we would be very poor synchro swimmers, but we did get stretched out pretty well.  After scaring the only boy in the elevator on the way up, we scampered off to bed in anticipation of our much earlier wake up call tomorrow at 5:30AM!

By:  Jordan

The alarm rang way too soon this morning, the team breakfast was scheduled for 9:00AM. We picked up our bagels and yogurt and went back to have our version of breakfast in bed. 

A brisk walk down the boardwalk at Downtown Disney was good to stretch out the legs from the previous day’s travel and the training session at Disney.   We’ve trained very hard and feel we are prepared for the task at hand. As we stroll through the stores at Downtown Disney, we find ourselves transformed into the princess’ which we all are. On the way back to the hotel, we found out what was in store for us for the evening as the sun and humidity beat down on us. 

We got back to the hotel and some of us returned to our rooms to rest up while others checked out the dance competition in the hotel. We hoped we would see our new friends from the night before who we watched practice their routine to “Carwash!” Although we didn’t see our friends, these girls were so cute and would for sure win the competition if they incorporated some of our amazing dance moves into their routines!! Million Dollar Baby was next on our agenda, followed by lunch and of course Oprah. 

Time to leave for the game…FINALLY! We were all eager to get out and play some soccer! We all separated into our designated vans and began to pump up for the game. I can’t speak for all the other vans but mine experienced a little crisis. Our jams weren’t coming though on our radio and we weren’t able to pump up to the best of our ability (and believe me, we know how to pump up!). By the time it was fixed, we were at the fields but we did get in a good few seconds on Vamos A La Playa!! 

Game time…

Shortly after we returned to the hotel we had a meeting discussing our outcome and plans for tomorrow’s game. We finally fulfilled our talking tummy’s as we walked down the ironing board tables filled with food in the hall. By this time we are exhausted and our beds our calling our names! End of day one…

Dressed for the Luncheon!