Europe Days 1-3 =)

We started our European adventure with a 4 day mini preseason. All the girls reported for training where we had just 4 days to knock the rust off and get ready to play the strong competition we would face in Europe. After a short bus trip to the Detroit airport, we had some difficulty with girls struggling to meet the 50 lb bag limit (cough lindsay cough). After scrambling around and putting random clothing items in a series of other girls' bags, we were all set for our long flight to Paris. During our layover, we were lucky enough to get a day tour of the city. Our Paris tour took us passed all the great landmarks including the Eiffel Tower and the Notre Dame Cathedral. The team had a great time posing for pictures and sampling the authentic French food. Upon returning to the airport, we enjoyed a short flight to London, where the real fun began!

We were picked up at the airport by our fabulous guide Fran and our impressive driver Mark. We checked into our hotel and explored the local area of Kensington before ending the long day of travel. While in London we enjoyed a city bus tour, which was not only entertaining thanks to our humorous tour guide, but it was also extremely informative and helped us all gain our bearings in the foreign territory. All of the girls love London and agree that it has so much energy and the people are really friendly! Some girls chose to attend different plays in London's famous Theater District while others opted for shopping in London's high fashion boutiques.

While in London we played our first match against Oxford United. We won 2-0 in a well fought match against a very talented opponent. The girls from the other team were extremely friendly and very skilled players. We exchanged gifts in the customary way at the beginning of the match. We gave them an ONU pennant and they gave us one of their jerseys.

Tomorrow we continue our European trip and head to Manchester where we will experience new sights to see and another match against Blackburn. The girls are definitely excited to see more of England!!