Greensboro/DC Spring Training Trip

Lindsey Moss
Jill Hutchinson
Michelle Hammer
Shelly Symons

The morning started off with an obnoxious call from Hammer to Jill at 5:31 am to make sure that we were awake. When we got to Alumni, people were already there packing the bus up with all of the food, bags, and lacrosse stuff. We left a little after 6, and everyone was basically passed out by 6:30.

Around 10:00, we were somewhere in Maryland and everyone was starting to wake up. We wanted to watch a movie, but of course it was a task for 25 girls to agree on one movie. The choices were between Hairspray and Clueless.

Jill: “Yeah that’s right, Hairspray won”
Hammer: “ This vote is totally unfair”

Jill thought it was the greatest thing in the world that our bus was “the chosen one” to get weighed at the weighing station. Than we kept going…

When we arrived in D.C. we viewed the gorgeous Potomac river, which Cheeks announced was the Hudson. We got off the bus and it was around 75 degrees (WOO HOO!!!). We saw the crying wall at the Korean War memorial, than we took team picture number 1.

Than we walked along the reflection pool towards the Washington Monument. We took team picture number 2 in front of a New York pillar.
Shelly: “I’m lonely over here in New Jersey!”
Jenna: “It’s the arm pit right?”

Coach took pictures of Jill and Cheeks “leaning” against the Washington Monument. While they were posing, some random guy put his child in the picture and scared Jill. We got closer and took a team picture in front of the Washington Monument.

We walked to the Lincoln Memorial and a lot of us thought that we had our workout for the day walking up the steps.
Hammer: “Lincoln is a really big guy!!!”
None of us thought it would be this big

We went to the Vietnam Memorial where a guy that worked there etched the names of 4 of the 8 women’s names that had died in the war; and he gave them to us. Our last team picture was in front of the statue dedicated to the women who served.

When we were going to the hotel, we were driving past the Capital Building and totally disregarded the ‘No Trucks Past Here’. We thought we had it made, but it quickly ended when a cop car came speeding in front of us and made us turn around.

As this was going on, we were having a “lesson”, initiated by Cheeks, about what goes on in the Capital building. Hillary was the one who cleared it all up.

So than, we got back on the bus and went to check in at the hotel. Than we went to the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum where our picture scavenger hunt BEGAN!!!

We had to find an item within the museum that began with each letter of the alphabet. It was harder than we thought it would be.

And now we’re off to dinner at ESPN Zone to play games and do some team bonding!