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Well I forgot to write about my 2 weeks of the winter tour.  What a great time!  It was much more laid back atmosphere because the four mens players decided to spit the money.  We got to play volleyball for no other reason than to just play.  It reminded me of why I started playing this sport in the first place, which was because I just loved competing and having fun with friends.  Each night right after the event we would load up in the rock star bus they had waiting for us and we’d be off to the next city.  We would travel anywhere from 2 to 8 hrs that night and then perform again the next night.  I say perform because that is what it felt like.  A circus or rock band performance with the travel from city to city and getting in 4 matches in an hr and a half time frame.  The best part was I think we added some new fans to the AVP.  A lot of kids that hadn’t ever seen pro beach volleyball live got to come and buy up all the AVP apparel and watch some good volleyball.

It was fun playing against Rosie.  I sometimes take how good he is for granted,  playing along side him for these last two years.  When he hits smart he is unstoppable.  He was slice cutting some insane shots that I couldn’t get even when blocking angle.  Then he went deep middle over the top of my block and made me feel very little.

Furby and I had some great matches against Rosie and Casey.  We had been talking trash for the last year about this exact match up whenever we hung 0ut.  Casey/Rosie think they should never lose to two big guys like us for some reason.  We had a steak dinner on the series for the week and if anyone swept it than it was dinner at Mastros.  Needless to say Furby and I swept 3-0.  Suck on it! Maaaaaaaaaaastros!!!

Other than that life has been pretty low key.  Just getting excited for the upcoming year!

Jake