ARUBA - day 1

All right, I arrived at my first stop in Aruba, one of the 3 dutch islands out here called the ABC-islands (Bonair and Cuarcao). After a long nap till this morning 11am I went playing Tennis with Thorsten Hohmann, Charlie Williams and Shane van Boening. I lost in the single match against Charlie but could win the doubles together with Thorsten for the lunch! And since we are in Aruba we decided to cool down in the clear water of the sea here - that made my day. I actually don't like the sea too much but here it is just overwhelming - white sand and clear water!










The meeting at the Hustlers pool hall was set for 7pm. With a little delay we started the clacutta. For those that don't know calcutta - each player gets sold and everybody can buy. 1st blind pick went for 900$ and the guy took Mika. Charlie Williams' question was: Mika who??! 2nd blind pick has gone for 1400$ which was Ralf Souquet. Also players like Thorsten, Shane and Niels were "sold" for a couple of hundreds. I went for 60$ :)

With a little practice we all left the club and went back to the hotel to leave for dinner. At the Brazilian Steakhouse around the corner even me as a vegetarian felt great with a big salad and some nice grilled pineapple. Together with the Shiraz my day was just getting to the highest level!















Now we just came back having a drink at the bar and I already look forward to my first game tomorrow against Denmark's Katrin Jensen at 1pm (19.00 CET). Visit ultimate10ball.com to see the tournament chart and the link to the live stream (ustream) - have fun!!