Back at PLU

Alright so we got back from Arizona tonight, I'm not sure I am ready to be back but I guess all good things must come to an end eventually. It is going to be nice to be back with everyone. I have managed to unpack already though and that's one of the worst things about coming back home from somewhere.

I did bring a couple things back with me from Arizona. None of which happened to be any pictures, I literally had no room at all to even pack my camera. One of the things I brought back with me is a mean sunburn. Spending all day in the desert sun when I have been hiding under the Pacific Northwest clouds for 4 months didnt fare too well for my paper white skin. If I didn't notice in the mirror I got burnt I did have my awesome friends and teammates there to remind me about 500 times that my face and neck were red. I also probably brought back a couple extra pounds with me. Being my first road trip I didn't really know what to expect. I found out soon enough though that you aren't exactly eating nutritional food when your on the road. I think the manager of the ampm across the street from our hotel was pretty happy we chose that hotel. There were a few ampm runs.

We flew into Phoenix Wednesday night and Paul, Tani, and I stayed up way too late listening to slow jams on tani's ipod, were soo cool. Our first game was at 10 the next morning, our batting practice was at 8 so we had to leave the hotel at 730. That meant a 630 wake-up to get breakfast and shower and get dressed. We played Occidental the first game and coasted through most of the game before exploding late and we ended up winning 14-3 or something like that. Articles about all of the games are up on the team website, I have the link on the top right corner of the page under team roster. We have two weeks before our next game though so coach gave us Monday and Tuesday off which is going to be really nice after having a long weekend.

On the trip I became very familiar with "two-ball." It's how us pitchers pass time when the hitters are taking batting practice. I sucked at first but I definently started to get the hang of it. The older guys were scared of the freshman beating them so they were all gunning for me. I could only hold them off for so long though.

When we got to Sea-tac Wednesday afternoon there was another charter bus right behind us when we pulled up to check-in, it was the U-Dub softball team. It was funny because Spenc and I are big Husky fans so when we were checking in our luggage Danielle Lowry was right behind us and we were like holy crap thats Danielle Lowry. They ended up being on the same plane as us. They had a tourney in Tempe.

It took me a long time to check in just because I somehow found a way to pick the slowest line so I ended up having to walk to the terminal by my lonesome. Then I got a text from a girl who went to R.A. Long and I remembered her saying she was going to play softball for the purple and gold. She says hey this might sound weird but are you at Sea-tac? So I talked to her for awhile until we boarded the plane. Baily, the girl I was talking to, is a pitcher and said she is Danielle Lowry's understudy, she said she would have brought her over and introduced me but I decided not to embarrass myself.

On the way home tonight at the Phoenix airport, walking to the terminal we passed the U of O softball team. Next time were flying I'm expecting to run into the Seattle Mariners.

Im back home though, back to reality, and the cold and wet.

Nathan...out