Spring "break" (yeah right!!!)

Some call it spring break, others call it "spring training." Go ahead and decide for yourself which sounds more desirable. haha However, we don't all get to chose, and I was in the group on spring training! :D We went to Oak Ridge, Tennessee and rowed and rowed and rowed and rowed and rowed and rowed and rowed and rowed and rowed and rowed hahaha you get the idea. It was really cool actually. I learned SO much. It was alot harder than I thought because it is alot more technical than the erg (rowing machine) that we had been training on all winter. But it was really really fun. At the beginning I did get pretty frustrated as I excpected to pick up on it pretty quickly, but once I figured out that it is quite a process and cant be accomplished in a short amount of time even with all my effort, I felt better. We went to Gatlinburg on Wednesday (only one practice that day) and it was really a fun little place! Sean and I walked around and saw the sights all day and really enjoyed it. haha We went to Riply's Believe it or not museum and that was sweet. There was an exhibit that scared/startled me so bad that I screamed bloody murder and there were literally tears coming out of my eyes. hahaha good times. We had our first "race" on Sunday, which was not really a normal race I guess because they didn't even have a novice women's 8, so we raced ourselves haha I caught such a massive crab that my ore was on its way under the boat until Kyle rescued me while still rowing with his own ore. Very impressive lol So, that was my spring break in a nutshell. I REALLY wish I was going to FL with CStone like I have the 3 years before. oh well! lucky duckles!