My Stupid, Stupid Ankle

I woke up April 8th, 2011, and everything was just fine. Even my ankle was fine. I got up out of my bed, and was excited that it was friday. I was planning on going to Hyvee Gas with Racheal and Rocky in the morning, go to school, then go over to Sam's house to stay for the weekend. That still happened, but with crutches and an air cast. Let's get to the part of how it happened. Racheal's mom pulled up to my house at 6:45 am, and I got in her car. Then we precceded on to Rocky's house to pick her up next. Well she got in the car, and we drove off towards the wonderful Mason City High School. Yes, we always arrive to school that early. When we pulled up to Mason City High School, we all got out of the car. Then we went into the school building, and put our stuff in Rocky's locker. Next we grabbed money, and was heading to the front doors to exit the building. It was around 7:20 in the morning now. When we got to the front doors we made an exit, and we were on ouy way to Hyvee Gas. We were walking through the grass, and as we approached the Blue Parking Curb...I didn't see it. That's when I tripped over it, and didn't fall. I caught myself before I hit the ground, but my ankle wasn't okay at all. It looked like the vein had popped on the side of my foot, and it was starting to swell up on the side. Well let's now skip to when the time was about 7:45 in the morning. My grandma had came and picked me up to take me to get my ankle checked. My mom works with my doctor, so she talked to her; i got into the doctor right away. I didn't go straight there though. My doctor faxed paperwork to the hospital, the radiology part to be exact, and I had xrays. After that I got back into the car, and was on the way to the doctor. By this time, my ankle was really swelled on the side. It was starting to look like a tennis ball. The doctor said that it was severly sprained, and I would have to be on crutches until April 15th. It's a really long time, and I was told to not put weight on it either. Well that's really all there is to the story of how I sprained my ankle. Yes, I tripped over a Handicap curb, but it happens all the time.

Cedar Rapids = Youth State Bowling Tournament

Bowling is back in session. Well it has never really been out, I just haven't competed for a while. Actually the last time I competed was for the Mason City High School Varsity Girls Bowling team, which competed in Cedar Falls almost two months ago. That was for the Sub-State match against five other schools. Well anyways that's not what I'm blogging about, so I'm going to proceed on with my blog. This past Saturday, April 2nd, I competed with my cousin Hunter Manchester at the state tournament in Cedar Rapids. We bowledl 3 games for singles, and 3 games together for doubles. We are hoping to place at least in the top 25, because it's really hard to place high up on the rankings. This was the only weekend left with openings. This tournament, for youth bowlers, has been going on since the beginning of March. Bowlers come and compete from all over Iowa. Every Saturday and Sunday is taken up. It's now the beginning of April, and I just now got my chance to compete in this awesome tournament. There was some hard competition down there, so I had to keep my head up. This is how it played out over the weekend. Saturday morning we drove down to Cedar Rapids to May City Lanes. When 12:30 p.m. arrived, Hunter and I approached our lanes. We were nervous, but excited at the same time. We then threw our first three games, which counted towards our single standings in the tournament. After our single games were over, we moved down to the next set of lanes. There we threw our next three games, which counted for doubles. Hunter shot a 493, with an average of a 164 per game. I shot a 514, with an average of a 171 per game. Well let's just leave out what we did that night, and stick with only bowling. The next morning I woke up, and was told that Hunter and I was sitting in first for doubles. We were ahead of everyone that bowled:)!!! It was amazing, and I was so glad to hear it. I then called up my cousin, and told him what the good news was. He was pretty happy, because we are in the route to receive a scholarship. Looking at the updated list not to long ago, two other groups beat us out. We're now down to third place, but we still can get that scholarship!!:) Two more weekends left, please say we can keep our third place spot at state!