As recounted by players.....
Trip to Denmark 2008
Tuesday July 15, 2008
The fun began when Sarah made a “wrong turn” and was late to the airport. With all of our bags checked into the LUFTANSA airline we met Amy, took pictures and said good bye to our parents… THAT’S WHEN THE FUN REALLY BEGAN!!!!
After we passed through security we went to the food court. Amy didn’t want Qdoba so we had to go get the princess pizza- but the rest of us had yummy Burritos. So anyways- we’re all getting on the plane and Abby can’t get on because she hasn’t signed her passport yet. Amy’s already freaking out.
On the plane we are all spread out and now having to meet strangers. We all sat next to THE RANDOMEST people- but all were very nice. Tori’s people from mobile, Amy’s people from Auburn, Abby’s people from Denmark- flying back to see their family, Sarah---- SOME lady who slept and reached out and touched her. And the rest well, we’ll let you know when we land in Germany in EIGHT hours.
Wednesday July 16, 2008
No one slept. We arrived in Germany 9:00 AM (but really 2:00AM our time!!) so we’re all exhausted and can barely keep our eyes open. The first thing we do is go through customs, where we stood in an area for a while that smelled like a zoo. After we got through there we went to go buy water and a quick snack! We payed our first big bucks for American food. Now it is nappy time- when we decided to spread out a blanket and make a bed for 6. All of us slept in a 6’ by 6’ area while Amy watched Heros & watched our stuff. After waking up Jess had messy MESSY hair… Amy thought it was alive and asked “does anyone have a leash for it?” Time to board the plane in Copenhagen.
So now, we’re here waiting in Copenhagen. TBall just got a icecream and we’re sitting in these really cool chairs taking over the entire airport, listening to music off of a phone- we’re so tired, and so hungry, and much more delirious than we were in Germany. Now we’re boarding our FINAL plane to Aalborg.
We got our luggage and met “SCOTTY BOY” he picked us up in a black mini-bus (we named it Charlie) He takes us to the Fortuna club, we get 2 rooms. We look into Amy’s room first and see one bunk bed. Then go down a hall to look into our room that all 6 of us are supposed to sleep in. There are 3 sets of bunk beds and an area the size of a closet to put 12 bags. It was quite 'odiferous' & with all of our stuff in there didn’t make it any better! BUT don’t worry we’re so excited to be here we sprayed good smellin’ stuff all over!
Now it’s time for dinner… as we walk in we see mystery meat patties and a pot of carrots and peas plus a pot of potatoes. We fill our plates because it’s the only thing we’ve eaten all day (besides the ice cream) After dinner we journeyed to the Danish grocery store where we bought 15.00 water just kiddin’ it was like 3 but everyone thought Amy was serious so none of us got any. We are still learning her sarcasm. But anyways… at the store Tori and Jess bought some Fransk hotdogs (FRANK-DAWG.) and Kiki bought THE BEST chocolate. We walk back to the dorm and went to bed-- we’re tired so we’ll write you in the morning.
Thursday July 17, 2008
We were told that practice would be at 10:00 AM so we casually walk down to breakfast where they tell us that we are practicing with the FIRST TEAM!! (@ 8:30) this was the professional team, they were ballers. Fleming the head coach is new to the club, he was very nice. We met some girls that play at the club, and are also on the National Team. Then we came back in and had breakfast which was poppy seed rolls, cheese and jelly, and some lunch meat. Kiki loves the lunch meat she eats it everyday!
Now it’s time for Skagen! We were lucky enough to have Tina (a former player for the club who attends Northeastern in Boston now) who is home for the summer drive us there. We all piled into “Charlie” and headed to the most Northern part of the country. We arrived in the town only to hear Jess and Tori keep repeating “we want crepes, lets find the crepes place”. So before any shopping could be done we had to eat. The crepes were delicious! We spend the next couple of hours shopping and converting the Kroner ( we like to call them crowns)to the American Dollar. We then stopped in the middle of the town to buy … a Frank-dawg ! Tori had to buy two because Amy was afraid to order it . (what a baby!)
After playing in the town we got in Charlie and went to the tip of Denmark, where the North Sea and the Baltic Sea collide (everyone had our aviators except for Sarah and Shanna.) we were stylin’ and profylin’. We splashed around in the FREEZING COLD water a little and then went back to the dorms.
We got there and had dinner, then we went to practice with our teams & we met some really cool Denmark girls- Tori and Jess knew some of them from last year. So now it’s time to go to sleep- talk to you tomorrow!
