Cruising Town And A New Team

Nish and I slept pretty well on our first night in "The Hall" (should my new name for Schwäbisch Hall catch on?) and we decided to take what was the rest of the morning and head into town. The town of Schwäbisch Hall is located somewhat smack-dab in the middle of Europe, well if you dont include Spain. And since I know you might want to go straight to google maps, just click here.

Notice: old and beautiful

We needed some breakfast for the morning so we started our little adventure, looking for a bakery. We cruised around for a bit wide eyed at the beautiful old buildings that are in the main area of the city. Most of the town was built hundreds of years ago so a lot of the builds have a classic look to them.

There was a bakery not too far from the main path we had taken so we stopped in and made our first German purchases, a pair of croissants (which were delicious). We had to pay in euros of course and use all the interesting little coins that we had.  We literally continued walking in a very large circle around the city, taking us a little over an hour at our leisurely pace. (I promise that I will be taking plenty of pictures and will post them up soon! ...Meg!)

Not long after our return our newest addition to our house came, Justice. He played at Wofford College and will play receiver for the Unicorns. He is a real nice guy and has some southern boy in him from what I can tell! Speaking of the Unicorns.....

We had our first practice last night!! Well I should say, OUR first practice WITH the team. The team has actually been practicing for a few months here and there already. All of our practices are at night because all of the German players have normal jobs and come from their work to practices. Unfortunately we seemed to have brought some Oregon weather with us and it proceeded to rain for the whole practice on us! Just our luck... It was a very good practice however, even though it was much shorter than a Linfield practice. Which... "in reality" isn't very hard to do haha. It is always fun for me to learn new offenses so I'm in heaven right now as I start to get the Unicorns system down!

Everyone one the team is very accepting of us Ami's (aka americans). They are all very nice and friendly! It will be tough to remember all the names of my teammates two fold, as there are quite a few to remember and there are some names I've never heard before! We begin our training camp tomorrow and will have two practices a day for the weekend, so it should be very fun, but time consuming! Wish me luck!