Today, I had the ball machine with Emily at 10am on court 13. We played 2 baskets full and then I stopped at 10.35am to try and book the tennis courts for Friday's morning ladies practice. You see, we can only book the courts 3 days in advance and the earliest we can book is on Tue morning at 10.30am sharp. Cecelia booked 1 court and I could hear her even as I was hitting the balls thrown at me by the ball machine. So, I ran outside to the reception to book the court but was told by Nick that all courts were full already for that day and only 1 court was available from 8.30-9am on court 12. I told him I wanted from 8.30-10am but I was desperate so, what the heck, book 1st.
Then I ran inside and told Cecelia and Emily that there were no courts. Emily then suggested perhaps we can book the outdoor court since it's going to be a partly cloudy day with no rain. So, she took out her iPhone and confirmed the weather and we tried to book the court online and lo and behold, we found out that actually, there were many courts available from 8.30-10am. Don't know what Nick from Reception was trying to pull but there were courts. So, we started mucking around with the reservations and putting in the respective names and got court 12. Hallelujah! By then, the time was up for us to give up the court coz Larry, our tennis coach had a singles lesson with Shawn Mehta.
As I was packing to leave, Shawn came in and said that I was needed on the outside court to play with the 3 guys coz he has to leave for his lessons. So, I went out and played with Wilson against Wo (Wilson's bro) and Kong. It was different playing outdoors with a jack hammer going on at the same time coz it does affect the concentration. We were down 2-3 when Shawn came out and told us there was a court available indoors. So, we quickly pack our stuff and went inside. It was a tough match coz Wo was a 4.0 player and Kong was a 3.0. Wilson was a 3.5 and I am, ahem, technically, a 3.0. That means we are 6.5 playing against 7.0 and Wilson was telling me that we should try to win coz his bro is a good player and that would be challenging for us. I guess by the time the score reached 6-5, I was all nice and warmed up and 1 service game, I had 3 excellent 1st serves that both of them can't take. I was so proud of myself that finally, all the serve practices are paying off now. Also, thanks to Larry for tweaking me now and then. Finally, we reached 6-6 and went into a tiebreak, to finally winning it with a FH down the line return serve on the advantage court which Kong couldn't take, winning 8-6. I was ecstatic, felt like I have won a Grand Slam, hahahaha! After that I told them I have to leave coz it was already 12pm and I will be running late if I don't get my butt moving to go buy groceries, go home and cook lunch and fetch Sam from school b4 going for her bowling practice.
Fetch Sam at 3.15pm and went straight to Homestead Lanes. Upon reaching, I had a terrible headache due to lack of sleep. This morning, I woke up at 3.40am when Ed woke up to get ready to go to the airport at 4.15am. After he left, I tossed and turned and didn't sleep till about 5.15am and woke up at 6am again when the alarm went off. Ed went to LA today to expedite his Canadian visa and once done, he will fly off to Toronto, Canada for his business trip. He'll be back on Fri, 2/27.
So, I told Sam to go practice her bowling on her own while I sleep in the car coz I was just so tired. And sleep I did and she finished about 5.15pm and we went home. She did pretty well at practice today scoring lines of 193, 203 and 208 with an average of 201.
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