Last night was an awesome night. I headed home after work to meet my dad at the tennis court complex by the lake. It was an absolutely beautiful night – no clouds in the sky, a perfect 75 degrees.
My dad is the whole reason I started playing tennis as a young toddler to begin with. Growing up, I knew it was always summer break when dad would have Wimbledon on every t.v. throughout the household so if I was doing chores, I could watch the match as I moved around. It’s one of those sports I will always be grateful I got into at a very young age. Tennis, like snowboarding to me, is a life-long sport that I will be able to play until I am old and gray living in Hilton Head Island.
We got to the courts with about 30 minutes to spare before the next round of play began. If you’re not familiar with how to “reserve” public tennis courts, let me give you a crash course.
Play begins every hour on the hour.
If you want to reserve a court, place your racquet on the court-specific peg board. If your reserving it for an ‘odd hour’, ie: 7:00 p.m., place it on the left. Even hour, ie: 8:00 p.m., the right.
If for some reason the people you are waiting for on court 4 get off at 6:40 p.m., don’t you dare remove your racquet and go to that court. Wait until 7:00 p.m., so you secure the full hour of play.
I hope that was helpful 😉
Dad and I got to play a whole hour between 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. which was the perfect time before the sun went down.
After tennis, we headed over to the local pub Wilde to grab a couple beers and grilled salmon sandwiches on their patio.
It was a perfect summer night.
Well folks, I’m off to Lolla Land starting tomorrow aka Lollapalooza! Being the type of person I am, I have already mapped out the bands I want to swing by and already packed my backpack.
Bailey is interested to know what’s in my Lolla backpack, so I’ll share with the class:
- Cash money – I opted out of the ‘Cashless’ wrist band option because that feels dangerous to me. I’m on a money diet, so I want to know how much I’m spending!
- ID, credit card, medical insurance card – My mother taught me to never go anywhere without it
- Sunscreen & chapstick – FYI you’re not allowed to bring spray-on sunscreen into the venue
- A poncho – This is just for Friday… 40% chance of rain, so who knows what will happen
- Portable phone charger – CLUTCH
- Refillable water bottle – I have like 10 of these, so if it doesn’t make it home with me I won’t cry about it
- Ziploc bag – If it rains, I’ll put my phone/charger in it
- Sunglasses – Obvi.
- Granola Bar – pretty sure this isn’t allowed, but I need snacks!
- Mini deodorant – no body likes to stand next to stinky people.
… and obviously my 3 day pass will be on my wrist.
See you next week!
Bites & Balance 