Continuing off Rachel, Lilly, & Gianna’s blog – after our last game of the day we all headed back to our rooms to shower & rest our legs for a bit. After, Heather, Fuster, Sammy, AJ, Sara, Hannah, & Abbey Mazur went out to the clubhouse for a bite to eat. As we were eating fries & slushies the owner came up to our table with two boys our age & asked us who was the fastest person. Everyone pointed at Heather, but she pointed at Sara. Soon after Sara & Heather agreed to race the boys across the entire field outside.

It was dark, so we could barely see but we were the only ones on the field. We found out just before the race began that the kid we were up against, Patrick da Silva, plays professionally for the team Brøndby, which we will watch at the stadium on Sunday. Patrick said that if Sara or Heather won the race that he would buy them a slushie and that if he lost, he would cry. People heard about the race and came outside of the restaurant to watch. After a few short seconds, Sara and Heather beat Patrick in the race. Patrick’s friend gave him a hard time about it and told him he would lose his job. it was quite hysterical. We went back into the clubhouse to get the prize we earned. The boys also agreed to take a picture with the group to have as a memory.

Then we all walked back to the hotel and found some snails on the stairs outside. Sammy and Abbey found this very amusing for a short while, but curfew was approaching so we all went back to our rooms for the night.

The next day, we played the semi final game verses Brøndby and won 3-0. The game was tied for a while but once we scored the first goal we ended up shutting them down and held possession the rest of the game. Goals came from Sara (2) and Kristen.

After the game we went back and had a quick snack before the barbecue with a Danish team. When we got there, everyone was very welcoming and excited. We all sat at different tables and talked to all the Danish girls. It was interesting to hear all their stories and learn things about them individually. They were all really funny and easy to talk to.

When we were done eating, we went to go watch the women’s professional team play. We watched the game and at halftime Katie and Fuster played around with a couple younger boys and some of the girls they met at dinner. The Danish boys showed off all their moves and tricks and we were amazed at how much they could do at such a young age. They all told us to “show off our skills” and we didn’t have any to show them that they already didn’t know how to do. The rest of the girls came to join us at this point and the kids taught us how to do the worm. It was funny to watch people attempt it, especially Fuster. Sam showed off her flip throw a couple times and the Danish girls loved watching her because they had never seen anything like it.

Once we got back to the hotel, some of us decided to explore the building. However, we failed to realize that some doors locked… After about 30 minutes wandering around we decided to head back to our rooms, but little did we know, the stairwell door that we had first gone through was locked. Fortunately we were able to connect to wifi & our teammates came to rescue us after about 10 minutes. We learned our lesson. On our way back to our rooms we quickly heard the bass go boom boom & we followed our musical instincts & found a DJ in the soccer complex. There we met other teams who shared a similar taste in music. We danced & sang along & had a great time! Overall, we love Denmark & we are so excited to start sightseeing & play in the finals!

Sara
Katie
Heather