Mexico bound

And here I am in Mexico...again!

I wasn't looking forward to this trip. I know I do well here and have won 3 tournaments in this country, but I'm never excited to come here. I'm not to fond of the food. They have more cheese and more grease here than anywhere else I've been. The cities aren't amazing to look at. It's usually hot and dry wherever I go so it's another element to deal with. I don't mind a language barrier but just another element to deal with and sometimes makes things stressful.

I took a flight yesterday to get here. I took off from LAX at 7:30am and then had a layover in Dallas for 5 hours. I met some fellow players there and we took off around 6pm to Leon airport getting us in around 8pm. The entire trip my friends and I were discussing what was going to happen once we landed in Mexico. The three of us had been emailing the housing coordinator several questions, but none of us ever got a straight answer. Personally, I didn't know who my family was, how far they were from the site, how I would get a hold of them, where I was even staying the night. The answer in the emails was "Don't worry about it. It's taken care of." For me I wanted a little more information. I figured I would just stay in the hotel for the first night and then go to the club the next day and try and get a hold of the housing coordinator.

Apparently we had a nice surprise waiting for us. The holiday day inn shuttle we were taking made a sign with all of our names on it, which made it easy to spot them. There was 5 girls in all getting into this mini van. We were pretty squished with all of our luggage cramped in the back and on top of us. As we were driving one girl asked if they would be able to drop her off at her housing. (She knew the family perviously from the tournament last year.) Ends up they had all the addresses for each player and took us to each house! What a nice surprise! I guess everything was taken care of and I shouldn't worry about anything ;)

But of course flying into a different country I wanted a little more info than I had! Good thing it worked out!

The family is wonderful. They have two kids, a boy and a girl. The house is open..meaning they don't have any doors to the rooms. The layout of the house is pretty cool but hard to sleep if people are up late or up early because you can hear everything. The most amazing part of the house is the animals! :) They have two labs. One black and one yellow. And two puppies!! A black and yellow as well.

I wish I brought my camera cord so I could upload pictures of them but I forgot it! I'll have to post some when I get back home. They are still drinking from the mom's belly so you can imagine how small they are! Their eyes are open and they can walk around but still small enough to be the cutest little things!

Practiced this morning with my doubles partner Nicole. I had a hard time getting a rhythm with the altitude but I know I'll get used to it. I always do. We have another practice this afternoon.

I'll try and remember to write about the wonderful things that happen in Mexico, by wonderful I mean annoying :p

M