Author: vballphil

For all those who really think they know what happened with Flight 93 or 9/11 in general…U need to see this movie. It is amazing to see 9/11 from another view….to remember…Where were you on 9/11? What was your first reaction when you saw the World Trade Center on fire…or crashing into the ground? Did you know someone directly involved? What were the numbers and carriers of the planes that were involved. Did you know about the Chicago flights that were grounded that had people arrested off that plane? And the pictures from that day….a picture literally spoke a thousand words.

This movie really showed the courage of a group of traveler’s, the confusion that happened that morning (I mean, who hijakes a plane, let alone 4, in the US), and the utter reality of what happened on the doomed flight. The passengers almost reclaimed the plane…they almost pulled it off…but we know how it ends.

I literally balled the last 5 minutes. It was amazing. Go see the movie…if not for yourself then go in rememberance of the Americans who lost their lives that fateful day. We will never forget….

So Baltimore came and went and now I am off to Dallas to do promotions for the AVP! Good times! Here are some pics from last weekend….

Me and my cousins with the new additions! Thanks Kat for having everyone over!!!

And then it was awesome to see my coach in crime….Yasmin! And congrats to her for winning her whole division!

And this was my last time “officially” assisting my 16E team with Jason.

And here is my team…

So this past weekend I traveled to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida for the first stop of the 2006 AVP Pro Beach Volleyball Tour. Talk about WEIRD! Only two months ago I was stressed about what I was going to do…and now I am traveling with the hottest men and women, who happen to play the sport I love, on a surface I love….the BEACH! Anyways, here is a couple of pics from the clinic I helped put together….a big thanks to the Pro’s for helping us out! It actually turned out to be a great experience for all. From Karch to Dane (Misty and Kerri’s coach) to more than enough kids! Here is Dane talking to the group with Britney, Anthony, Cindy, and Albert (my court coaches) looking on.

The one and only Karch (with Larry Witt, his partner, looking on), along with Mike Rangel (Plyo City Director) watching.

Yesterday was amazing. Both parks…singing next to one of the most amazing singers ever :)…JAMIE
, some awesome winetasting, a couple of haunted ghosts, and my fave part, KICKING JAMIE’S BUTT AT ASTROBLASTERS!

Let’s start our journey right…so we entered DCA first and decided to get some fabulous fresh flour tortillas at the Mission Tortilla factory (“MASECA”) and then ventured over to the Animation studios where we got to see who our inner “character” was, sing with the movies, talk with Crush, and listen to the disney masterpieces on giant screens! After, I ran to Tower (cause we all know about my obession) and then went wine tasting
. SO MUCH FUN! I learned a TON from Jammers
and the guy working the tasting. The 6 “S”‘s are totally new to me…but it was REALLY cool to start to learn how to actually taste the wine.

After our winetasting we headed over to Disneyland. Our friend Steven, from the gathering, was working
and we decided to go and find him. Well, he actually found us…so that was cool. From there we left the park to go eat at the House of Blues
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After dinner we walked back to the park and went over to the Astroblasters…hahahaha! And I kicked Jamie’s butt! :)! After that we went shopping on Main Street. Then we went over to the Haunted Mansion (which, by the way, is finally back open) and took a trip through that quaint and joyful house (“Hurry back…Hurry back…we’ve been dying to have you”)
. GOOD TIMES! We knew that Fastamic was going to be coming soon so we ventured over to find a spot…but then realized we could miss the fireworks if we did not get out of fantasmic fast enough…so we left and found some great seats for the show…but “due to high wind at the upper levels” the show was cancelled…:(. But…all in all it was an amazing day!!!

Craziness…so one week ago, i was doing the Universal Studios/DCA/ Dland thing…wow. Another week gone! And in one week I will be in Ft. Lauderdale for the first stop of the AVP! Can you believe that!

So I officially started this week at the AVP office in Westchester. It was long and interesting and great all in one! The bad thing…TRAFFIC….OH MY GOSH! Wow…I really have been spoiled working close to my home. Ya know?

So let’s do a recap…last sat was US/DCA/Dland, sun was a tourney in Oceanside, mon was my first day on the job (had a “official” staff meeting from the start), tues was my CRAZY day with work, weights, and vball all rolled into one, wed was Media Day at the AVP (and then Misty was awesome and made me dinner), thurs was work with weights, and friday was work with volleyball (and I misssed the bank closing by 5 minutes…ARG). GOOD TIMES! Hahaha! So it is off to Dland/DCA with Jammers today! YEA!!! My next post should be full of fun pics!! YEA!

Wow…Who knew that my Sat would be so adventurous! This was my first Sat off in a long time and I had decided that I would go to Universal Studios to redeem my FREE annual pass (from Cingular). Wow…can we say FUN! All I have to say is THE MUMMY ROCKS! I ended up going on that ride 3 times, along with Jurassic Park once in like 45 minutes…LET ME TELL YOU…GO ON THE MUMMY!!! So much fun! From there I decided to go on the tour ride…which is always fun…and can we say TONS OF COOL PICS!!! I will post some more later!
Later that evening, my friend Beth imed me about going to DLand and I was like HECK YES!! So I ventured from Hollywood to Dland…in the same day!! CRAZY! From the Tower of Terror to the Haunted Mansion…we wondered the two lands! And with the weather and the crowds…we had some photo fun! Hahaha! Who says you can’t have fun with cameras!!!