We are in Wiesbaden, Germany, for the European Tennis Championships! It's wild and crazy ... and very, very German. Just when we thought we had the Italian language under control, we suddenly don't understand anything anymore! Trying to communicate with our bus driver is particularly funny.
The tennis is intense! Our singles players both made the quarters, and our doubles teams are still alive in the consolation bracket. Our boys doubles team played the most exciting game of the day. They played admirably but lost to the No. 2 seed (brutal draw!). But they'll sweep the backdoor games and probably play for third place on Saturday. They're really fun to watch — great net play!
Caitlin and I are reliving our glory days from high school athletics. All 6 kids are really fun: they're a nice combination of serious, goofy, super-cool, high-strung, spacy and awkward. Sounds like me in a nutshell.
The flight from Fiumicino to Frankfurt was relatively painless. No one forgot their passports, and no luggage was lost. And I must say I'm now a big Lufthansa fan. Good thing we remembered our puffy jackets, too — it's cold! Reminds us of Oregon.
Friday we follow the same schedule we used Thursday: up at 6, breakfast at 6:45, bus by 7:15, to the courts by 7:30, matches start at 8:30. Three coaches split up to three venues: Caitlin is with the girls doubles, Coach Phil is with the boys doubles, and I'm with both singles players. Logistics and transportation and communication is a mess, but it all works out.
So far we've eaten Thai food and Mexican food for dinner. But we had schnitzel for lunch. Das is güt.
The tennis is intense! Our singles players both made the quarters, and our doubles teams are still alive in the consolation bracket. Our boys doubles team played the most exciting game of the day. They played admirably but lost to the No. 2 seed (brutal draw!). But they'll sweep the backdoor games and probably play for third place on Saturday. They're really fun to watch — great net play!
Caitlin and I are reliving our glory days from high school athletics. All 6 kids are really fun: they're a nice combination of serious, goofy, super-cool, high-strung, spacy and awkward. Sounds like me in a nutshell.
The flight from Fiumicino to Frankfurt was relatively painless. No one forgot their passports, and no luggage was lost. And I must say I'm now a big Lufthansa fan. Good thing we remembered our puffy jackets, too — it's cold! Reminds us of Oregon.
Friday we follow the same schedule we used Thursday: up at 6, breakfast at 6:45, bus by 7:15, to the courts by 7:30, matches start at 8:30. Three coaches split up to three venues: Caitlin is with the girls doubles, Coach Phil is with the boys doubles, and I'm with both singles players. Logistics and transportation and communication is a mess, but it all works out.
So far we've eaten Thai food and Mexican food for dinner. But we had schnitzel for lunch. Das is güt.
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