Beach Days and Volleyball

Yesterday and today were completely relaxing beach days and I loved it!  I slept in yesterday and then went to the beach here in Varna with Andrea.  We laid in the sun for a bit before heading to the beach volleyball tournament that was also right next to the ship.  It was the CEV Challenger tournament going on for Friday through Sunday so Andrea and I watched Germany defeat Slovakia.  Then we headed back to the ship to shower, eat dinner, and get ready to go out.

Last night we went out to Golden Sands and had a great time.  We went bar hoping around the beach and went to Bierkonig (the crazy German bar), Admiral, and a crazy Scandinavian bar.  We met a group of Danish guys celebrating one of their 21st birthdays and we hung out with them all night and had a ton of fun.  We ended up getting back to the ship around 4:00am and then it was great to just have another lazy beach day today.

Today I slept in again then hit up the beach with Kaitlyn.  She was really excited to see volleyball since she played for a year in college and it was fun to watch with her because she knew what was going on.  We watched the 3rd place match where Latvia defeated Bulgaria.  Everyone was really energized for that match since it was the home team.  Then we watched the championship match where Germany defeated Brazil.  We got lots of fun blow up stuff from the sponsors and it was a really fun tournament even though it was quite a bit smaller than the AVP on North Avenue Beach.  Then we come back to the ship and had dinner and are relaxing for the rest of the night.