After 11 months of anticipation, the time had finally arrived, It was the morning of Sunday, August 31, 2014, Jason and I were getting ready to board the plane from Seattle, Washington to head to Ravenna, Italy to meet up and reunite with our Florida Dragon Boat Team, the Jax Fire Dragons, at the 9th Annual International Dragon Boat Federation Club Crew World Championships.
As we arrived in Italy the sun was starting to set, but from what we were able to see, the country side was beautiful, and by the time we got to our hotel all we wanted to do was get some rest. But before we did we were able to meet up with our Coach and a couple of our fellow teammates and visited with them with enough time to find out what the game plan was for the morning. After we got all the info we needed we headed back to our room and got our much needed rest.
Even though I was exhausted from our travels, I could not sleep a wink, I was just to excited to see everyone again and all i could do was just lay in bed anxiously waiting for the time to pass. That morning, we met with our fellow Fire Dragons down in the lobby for breakfast, then loaded up our charter bus and off to the race venue we went. The drive from our hotel was about 15 minutes to the venue and once we arrived there was a sea of Charter Buses lining the parking lot dropping off some of the other teams. It all became real that were were at the Worlds and among the best of the best in the Dragon Boat community.
The weather was not to appealing for the first two days that we were there. It was raining and the wind was blowing so hard that the water conditions were so bad that they had to cancel the first day of team practices. Even though the weather was not any better the following day, all the teams were able to get out on the water and get their practice times done.
It was a long, wet, exhausting day and that was just our first day!
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