We left our lovely home at the Celtic Manor on Thursday morning, bright and early at 7am after eating a quick breakfast at 6:45am. We bussed out to Heathrow airport where we caught a British Airways flight to the Amsterdam, Schipnol. It was great to see some sunshine and feel warm weather. As most of you know all I ever do is go from winter to winter (from one basketball season to the next), so to spend a day in the sun was awesome!!! We had a full day of practice on Friday, one session in the morning then another session in the afternoon. It was good to get some sessions in after a day of travel, the coaches filmed our sessions and were able to really pin point some specific area's that we need to improve on, and other area's where we are all really working well together.
Before we knew it, game day was here, and we were all pretty excited to get on the court and play. We were playing the Netherlands, which was the team that we played and beat last year in our promo games. We knew we were going to be in for some good quality play and that's what happened. We won our first game and got some good things out of it, and we were able to really go into our second game the following day, trying really hard to key in on certain points. Both games were really good preparation for us, and I believe that they have increased our level of play, and increased our intensity for our tough games that we have coming up against Croatia.
So right now its Monday night and we are here in Croatia. We got in at roughly around 5pm, had to be back downstairs ready to go to practice at 5:20pm, and we then had a good work out from 6pm-7pm. We have our first game against Croatia tomorrow and I'm really looking forward to getting out there and playing hard against them. It will be a true measure to see how we are in terms of our preparation for our main focus, our European games that are coming up very quickly.
Also it is great to have Internet access again!!!! We didn't have a connection in Almere where we stayed. So it is great to get my email fix and to be able to, of course update my blog!!! :)
Thank you to everyone who has commented so far :) Sarah it was awesome to hear from you, I will send you an email when I get more of a chance!!
OK lots of luv to everyone, be good, stay safe and I will post again soon :)
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