Still Chillin' at the Spa Sport Resort

So far, two great full days in Brazil. Yesterday, we traveled about 3 hours to play against Sao Jose in their stadium. The Brazilians, as expected, were quite skilled and took it to us from the start. After about 15 minutes we were able to settle down and we played fairly well for the rest of the match. The Sao Jose keeper had a few great saves, and the scored remained 1-0 them until the end.

It took us about 4 hours to get back so we had a pretty late dinner and then most of us just hit the sack. Today we had another relaxing morning and then we were off to play Corinthians about "an hour away" (which can be translated, from Brazilian time, to 2 hours). Amidst some tired legs and some heat that we're pretty unaccustomed to, we tied 0-0. On the way out of there, we stopped by the Corinthians memorial and caught a glimpse of some of the history of the club as well as some trophies - pretty cool.

But then, somehow, our 2 hour trip to the game turned into a 4 hour ride back??? Hmmm. OK, well there was traffic ... and then the market stop ... but really??? Is Brazilian time THAT different that a 1 hour away trip turns into 4 hours??!?!?!

Haha, anyway, much like last night, it was back to a 9pm dinner. I'm sharing a room with Andra, our trainer, and we just had a bit of entertainment in our makeshift training room (aka, our room) ... some blood blisters needed to be popped, and A, ever up to the challenge, decided to take it on bedside. Well, she wasn't exxxactly prepared for the blood blister to be relived directly into her eye, but so it was! Gross? Yes. Hilarious? Also, yes.

Oh, and a little shout out to Daus and my club team - Spartans ... hope Shep and Lys are treating you guys well!!!

... anyway, I'm off to bed. Tomorrow we're going by an orphanage in the morning and then playing in an indoor tournament at night ...