I try grass volleyball

I play on a beach volleyball team. Last weekend most of my team was in Alabama for a tournament but I stayed back with my friend and we were just going to do a local sand tournament. Unfortunately, we tried to register too late. So we ended up finding a grass volleyball tournament to play in. We were playing in the Women’s BB division, so it was my first time playing against women and my first time playing in grass.

I was expecting the people there to be pretty old, but it was mostly women in their 20s that were really really good. We lost pretty much all of our games but it was still really nice. In the morning the grass was super wet and I kept slipping around. I thought that grass would be way easier than sand but I was wrong because most of the time when I ran up to hit I just slipped and fell or I had to take a really slow approach. Also I got an allergic reaction all over legs and arms so I had little red dots everywhere. The dots turned into little scratches and it was very bad. But overall it was a good experience and I had a nice time. It was great to see how there was a little community of older volleyball players that could continue playing the sport after college.

Here is my partner and I about to lose a point

New things that I did during Spring Break

Over spring break I went to Hawaii with my family. Here’s some of the new things I did while I was there.

I fell off a rock and into the ocean. I was climbing on a lava rock with my brother and I followed this crab and then slipped and fell. I got a lot of scrapes on my hands and legs but it could have been a LOT worse. I would recommend always staying on the dry side of a rock. Keep away from anything that looks slippery.

The rock my brother is standing on is the one I fell off of, I fell on the back side that you can’t see in the picture.

Saw lots of sea turtles. While I was snorkeling I came across a turtle every few minutes, and it was so nice to get to swim around them.

I also saw a rainbow eucalyptus tree. The tree is rainbow because the bark on the tree peels in different parts of the tree at different times. When the bark peels it reveals a green layer, and overtime this layer changes color creating a rainbow look on the tree.

Tried lots of new food. My favorites were papaya, macadamia banana french toast, I forgot the name of it but its pretty much sushi but instead of raw fish its spam, and raw coconut.

I touched an octopus. I saw an octopus twice while snorkeling, and after the first time I talked to one of the locals about it. He told me that I should just try to grab the octopus, cause that’s how he catches them so he can eat it later. Of course I wasn’t gonna try to grab it, but the conversation did help me realize that I could touch them without being hurt. So the next time I saw an octopus while snorkeling I pet it. The octopus would change color and texture in like a second, and it went from being white and ridged to purple and smooth really quickly. It felt exactly like you’d expect, and unsurprisingly I scared it and it swam away and spewed out ink. After that I felt really bad for bothering it, but it was still one of the coolest experiences of my life.

This is the kind of octopus I saw. It’s called a Hawaiian Day Octopus.

I did a lot other things in Hawaii that were not really new but they were still really amazing, so I’ll include some pictures in another post when I can (right now lcps blogs isn’t really letting me upload any more pictures).