Day 1: A great beginning to our trip to Grand Cayman

The Olivet College volleyball team is on a week-long trip to Grand Cayman for its preseason training. While there, the players will be writing blog posts and sending them back to the U.S.A. to be posted on the website. The home page for the blog, where future posts will be linked to is: www.olivetcomets.com/sports/wvball/2014-15/cayman_blog/

THURSDAY, AUG. 7 -- written by Stefanie Lang

This was many girls first time flying internationally and let me tell you it was definitely an experience. With two flights and an hour layover in between in North Carolina many curious bystanders wondered who we were. We are your Olivet College Women's volleyball team. After spotting the Steeler's and Cardinal's planes at the airport, we soon began looking for our future husbands. Which was a complete fail. Now onto our next leg of the journey, Cayman Islands!

The first thing we noticed upon landing was the outrageous amount of roosters they have roaming throughout the island. We were welcomed by a very large rain storm. Which wasn't helpful trying to navigate through the confusing, chaotic traffic. When we finally got settled into our rooms at the hotel we had an opportunity after the storm passed to explore the beach. Which was absolutely breathtaking!  We have never seen clearer water and the fish would swim right up to your feet. This was a lot of the girls first time swimming in the ocean. They did not expect the salty water and soon found out the hard way with burning eyes. Some of the girls got to experience a sting ray swimming right under them!

After a long day of traveling, we shared pizza together in coach's room and called it an early night. Tomorrow, we have an early morning workout and then an afternoon surprise you'll find out later in our next blog. Today was a great day to reunite the team and represent the college over here in the islands.

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