Mud Volleyball!

This past weekend, a group of friends and I went up to Lena, IL to particiapate in a mud volleyball tournament. We got up there on Friday and camped out (in the rain), but Saturday was a beautiful sunny day and we did ourselves proud in the tourney. We won our first match 2-0 (each match was best 2 out of 3 games, each game was to 21). Last year, we didn't win any matches in the main draw - we entered a losers tournament and won a match there, but we were shutout in the main tourney. So the fact that we won a match was nice (if not amazing!).

Our second match was a different story. We got smoked 2-0. That team we played just plain whupped up on us. We didn't know if we'd get another match or not, but luckily we got moved to the consolation bracket of the tourney, meaning we still got to play another match. We won our third match 2-0, and lost our 4th match 2-1. So all in all, we got to play 9 games and 4 matches. Not bad at all - kudos to everybody who went and played and also to those who came out and supported us - it was a fun weekend! And thanks to Mary Brown-Gordon for allowing me to use her photos on my blog - I'll give you a percentage of the royalties!

Funny story - our team name was supposed to be Ritter's Bitches. We had T-shirts made and everything. We entered that with the coordinators of the tournament, but they said we couldn't have that as our name, since it was a family event. No worries - we'll just change it to Ritter's B's. Anyway, when we got there, you should have heard the other team names that were allowed... Anal Leakage, Snatch Maggots, Goat Roping Banjo Humpers, The Rusty Trombones, etc. It's a good thing they stopped us from having 'Bitches' in our name - we wouldn't have wanted to offend anybody! ;)