Floridan Fun Spots

Well, I've summed up the tournament and now it's time to sum up the vacation. Florida is Florida; it's warm, sunny, and always a good time. Our first day we headed to Clearwater (on the gulf I believe), looked at the Christian College campus and then headed to the beach.

Side note: If you were watching online and noticed us doing a line dance when we scored against Philly, that dance was influenced by the campus of Clearwater Christian College. You see, apparently they have a dress code and we noticed that all of the women were wearing skirts. So every time we saw this, we said "skirt", and tried to count all of the skirts to be seen. It was probably the most skirts I've ever seen worn at one time in one location! Anyways, Andry and I made up that line dance at our regional final and then it became the "skirt" dance at nationals. We would chant "skirts" every time we moved from side to side. There's a fun fact for ya, now ya KNOW!

Okay, back to the beach... We played beach soccer for an hour and waded in the waves as well for a bit. Here's a clip I took on the beach:

We went for lunch after and I had a Doner Kebab (or gyro) for the first time in a long time! Sooo good.

At the hotel, the hot tub was the place to be and a couple of our guys actually bought some revealing Speedos to showcase as a joke. Here is Mr. Price himself displaying some skin:

Hilarious!

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We took losing in penalties to Clearwater pretty hard, but that didn't stop us from enjoying the Florida atmosphere. On our day off, we decided to go shop, chill at the pool, and go eat at Applebee's as a huge Prov crew (both the women's vball team and us). After our dinner, we had a huge mini-golf competition (which did get quite heated) at one of the several massive and elaborate courses they had on the highway. The one we chose was spectacular. Elevated holes, lots of streaming water, gators, bridges, tunnel options, steep drops, etc. It had it ALL. I love mini-putt, especially when it's extreme. I got a hole-in-one on the steepest hole I've ever seen. It was almost a straight drop, about 12 ft. I immediately threw my putter in the air and gave out a Chewbacca roar. Good times.

Anyways, Saturday came and we attended the final in the evening. It was hardly a contest, let's face it. Clearwater won 2-0 and put it away early within the first 15 minutes. If only that semi-final had gone OUR WAY! BAH. Meh, here is a clip of us on the sidelines, watching the game we were inches away from being in (literally):

After the game, we had some time to kill before waking up at 4:20am the next morning to leave for home! So a few of us went across the street from the hotel and checked out the carnival, entitled Fun Spot. It basically only had two massive bungee-type attractions. The one apparatus threw a bunch of people in a spinning capsule, at least 100 feet into the air! Ridiculous... we didn't take part. We just mingled as the employees closed up shop haha.

So those were our major outgoings in and around Kissimee, FL! Our week went by as quickly as it came; what a fun trip. I can't believe our season is over already.

P.s. I'm pretty sure I saw an armadillo for the first time down there. I gave the same reaction as when I saw a wild possum in my backyard multiple years back... an exciting yelp. It curled up right when I took the picture!