This past Saturday Wauter and Henk invited me to go to Scheveningen (i cannot even begin to try and say this word) which is a town right on the beach. We didnt go until around 8 or 9pm but with how late is stays light here that really wasnt an issue. We parked in a parking garage and walked towards the water. It is like a boardwalk with tons of bars and places to dance, and more of the same lounging areas on the beach as Hoek van Holland. They asked if I wanted to go down on the beach and of course my reply was yes. As soon as we got to the bottom of the stairs and where the cement met sand they stood there in their tennis shoes while I kept going in my flip flops. They asked if I was seriously going to walk on the beach and I said yes now lets go, so of course I won and they had to walk in the sand with their tennis shoes, but I told them it was their fault for wearing tennis shoes to the beach. We walked down to the water and I took more pictures of the water, and the pier that we were by. They kept making fun of me for being a tourist and kept telling me to "take picture" in an asian accent. Very funny. Then I saw a lighthouse down by the harbor where the boats came in and I made them walk all the way down so I could take a picture of it. By then it was dark and they turned the light on in the lighthouse but I couldnt get a good picture of it :[ The only sad thing about the beach is that it was absoloutely covered in trash. They dont pick up after themselves and there arent trash cans down near the water so they all just leave their garbage. Pretty sad. We then started walking back to the pier where we had walked down at and decided to go up and sit down and have a drink. We walked by tons of different restaurants/clubs and you could see them all start to transform into night clubs as it got later in the night. We walked past a place called Sea Life and I really want to go there before I leave and see the animals in there. We finally left around 1:30am and got home around 2 I think. I immediately passed out because I was so tired and we had games the next day.
Sunday we had 2 away games against the Gryphons. It was about an hour drive away and boy was it hot yesterday. It has been consistently hot the past week but no one is complaining! We wore shorts yesterday in our games because a lot of the girls want to wear shorts and the only people who dont are the two of us that play in college and are used to pants. We won both of our games. I pitched the first game, we won 3-0. I had 8 strikeouts and 2 hits. No walks. This was the best hitting team so far...and by that I mean they stuck their bat out and swung with their eyes closed pretty well. The umpire was pretty horrible with calling balls and strikes and he called about 4 of our girls out at first when they were very safe, but oh well because we won anyway! I did not hit this game. We won our second game in 5 innings with a score of 12-1. Anja pitched this game and I played right field and hit. I didnt get any balls in right besides foul balls but I was just glad to be playing. My first at bat I battled for a pretty long time before doing what I usually do and swinging at a ball for the 3rd stike. I was really mad at myself. My second at bat I was determined to get a hit, so I worked on being more patient and sung the ABC's in my head while I waited for the pitcher to finally throw the ball and then try and let it come in. I hit a linedrive in almost the same spot as my double a few weeks ago..right over the shortstops glove for a single and an RBI. I came around to score that inning as well. Thari got pictures of me on base. My third at bat I battled again and then popped up an outside pitch, which I keep doing and its really frustrating. It was a very high pop fly to right field and it hit the right fielders glove and then she dropped it so I got lucky and was safe. We were very excited about the wins, getting close and closer to that second place spot!! Later at home last night we were talking in the garden and Frans said if we get in the top 2 we move up to the very top level next year and that I would have to come back. Margreet said I dont have to do anything I dont want to do, I just laughed and told them I didnt think I was ready to be done playing softball so we would see. It would be fun to grow with the team and see another level. I think these girls could handle it, we have a pretty great hitting and fielding team. I feel lucky to be here. Anyway, Ill post some pics of the game yesterday. Margreet wasnt at the game to take pics so I only got some of the 2nd game. No plans today besides watching Hollands game at 4pm here. Tomorrow night the 2nd softball team that I am helping coach has a game so I will be going to the club early to give a pitching lesson before we warm up then I will coach first base again. Ill let you know how the girls do! Hope everyone is doing well. Hugs and Kisses!! xoxo
-Olivia
<--haha i love this pic bec of how awesome my face is. such a beauty.
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