California Kickoff.

Emily's first volleyball tournement was in San Jose Last weekend, it was called the California Kickoff. Just Emily and I went over for the weekend. We left well before the sun came up Saturday and got to the convention center at about 8 am. Trust me, you have never seen this many volleyball courts and teams in one place. It was enormous I tell you! This picture does NOTHING to convey the enormity of the thing, but it's the best I could do standing on a chair.

Someone said there were 40 courts, but when we counted them it seemed closer to 30. 30 courts! That's 60 teams playing at once in a giant building! It was crazy. It was a lot of fun for both of us. I took a few good pics of Em in action.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We stayed in a hotel Saturday night and it was a nice little adventure for us. We did some shopping and had a dinner and called it a night early. Unfortunately or hotel neighbors were 49er fans and partied late and loud waking us up in the middle of the night. It was extremely rude and selfish of them, not just because it is a HOTEL where people PAY to SLEEP!! but also because we had to be at the venue very early Sunday! At 7 am, we knocked on their door and ran to the elevator as fast as we could. Yep, we really showed them!

After the games and lunch with the team, we went to mass at the cathedral in downtown SJ, it was just a few blocks from the convention center.

 

In the grand scheme of it all, her team finished somewhere in the middle of the rankings. Not bad for their first outing together as a new team. The season goes through May I think, and I'm looking forward to all of it. Volleyball is so much fun. Go Crush!