Day 1

The team started it's day this morning at 1:30 with a quick meeting to go over some last minute details and to finish packing up our team gear in the locker room. Several of the guys took advantage of Dan Bryant's sleeper but on the 3:00 ride to the airport. Our first blessing of the trip: NO CHARGE FOR LUGGAGE! That saved us a lot of $ and made the early morning seem more bearable.

We had two very smooth and on-time flights and arrived in Freeport at noon. The Bahamas Sports Federation met us at that gate and blessing #2: ALL OF THE LUGGAGE ARRIVED! They moved us right through customs and onto a charter bus that took us through a tour of the city complete with commentary from our driver "Teddy Bear"

While Coach Atkinson and I met with TU grads Randy Thompson and his wife (much, much more on them later) and toured the baseball facilities, YMCA, Church, and school that we will be working with during our trip several of the players caught up on some sleep, while others took advantage of the many activities at the resort and at the Lucaya Port Authority right across the street from the hotel and grabbed some lunch.

Before I forget, blessing number three courtesy of the Thompson's: FREE RENTAL VEHICLES!

The team then headed over to the Church to hear a presentation from the Bahamas tourism group and learned a lot about the culture and history of the Bahamas before grabbing some pizza and heading to bed. As you can imagine after such a long day, everyone is really tired but also really excited to be here and have this opportunity.

Tomorrow will start early with breakfast at 8:00 and our first practice of the month at 9:00 over at the Baseball Field.

Thanks for following us on our trip and remember to keep us in your prayers the next two weeks!

Much more to come, including updates from the players.