Traveling is no fun

Going from place to place every week some times becomes a hassle, especially when it comes to flying. Here are a number of reasons why.

1. The airports are so crowded nowadays. You zig zag through endless long lines like animals waiting to get slaughtered.

2. The kiosk machines to check you in never read your credit card correctly.

3. You have to pay 25 bucks for your first bag and another 15 for your second.

4. You strip down practically to your undies to get through the metal detector, while the TSA agents stare you down like vultures over roadkill.

5. The flight is delayed because of weather or mechanical problems or the flight crew issues or late passengers

6. Your carry-on is so big it hits passengers in the head as you try to stuff it into the overhead compartment.

7. The person sitting behind you feels the need to slam their tray table up and down every 5 seconds.

8. The person sitting behind you pretty much reclines your seat to get in and out of their chair.

9. Infants who cry nonstop. This is the best on night flights when you are trying to get some sleep. Well for me I don't sleep because I think we're going to crash or the plane will rip apart in midair, but the cries drown out my ipod which is annoying.

10. No food is given besides 10 teeny tiny pretzels and a shot glass size soda.

11. Lastly, your luggage gets lost because some guy with the earmuffs had a bad day and you find out it is travelling on a plane to somewhere on the other side of the world.


My 10 year plan to get avoid all this...

Nice right? I thought so.

USTA Camp Chapters 3 & 4

Okay, so I'm sorry it has been a while since camp finished and I haven't posted anything. Please forgive me. On second thought, I'm not really sorry. It's my blog and I can write whenever I want. But I do want some readers.. so I'm sorry.

Anyway enough apologies...we survived camp. I wasn't as sore as last years but I thought this years was better and the coaches were great. So I think I left you at day two so on the third day (Wednesday) I started off hitting with two others and a very well known coach. Does Tom Gullikson sound familiar? He trained players such as Pete Sampras and Andre Agassi. He was captain of the US Davis Cup Team as well as coached the Men's Olympic Team in 1996 the year they won. So he knows his stuff. Well we did a lot of good drills and I got some good tips from him so that was a great experience. Then in the afternoon we played a set of doubles which me and my partner won in a tiebreaker, and after a pro set of singles. I ended up playing a girl who is 8 in the world in juniors. That was fun. The whole match we traded service games until I was broken then I broke her right back. We ended up having to play a tiebreaker to decide the match. A tiebreaker that I won. Yay! But it was a great match and it was a great day.

Thursday was our last day (hallelujah). We started out drilling again, just myself and a girl who plays for Texas and plays similar to me. (one-handed backhand and a big forehand) Our coach was a former top 50 player in the world and is one of the USTA's Summer Team Coach. But we trained wicked hard for and hour and a half, most of the time I sounded like a flute because I was gasping for air. But after the practice I don't think I had anything left in me. I was cooked. Well-done in fact maybe even a little charred. Then in the afternoon we just played a few sets and that was that. But the week was great. I learned a lot and played with the best college players in the country. It was great to participate in before the summer tournaments start.

Now I'm still in Boca just practicing before my upcoming tournaments in Atlanta, Kentucky, and Missouri. I'll try to keep you posted on those when I have free time.