Welcome to the wonderfully stressful world of trying to organize a crazy trip including 3 countries with 3 tournaments !!! Our friends in Chile are really really eager to have myself and my 2 travelling buddies visit them and enter a team into their inaugural tournament ... the Southern Zone Cup ! This is huge for them as we will probably be the first to visit them for hockey ... they just got an arena and are just fighting their hardest for sponsorship and funding to make this work ! They are really pushing to make this event big :P
The first tourney we will visit is in Rio de Janeiro , which the organizer is very relaxed and has not been pushing for a date . They are setting up a mini tourney for us there with local teams and are putting us into a nice hotel there also , its gonna be pricey in Brazil but the bottom line is staying somewhere safe ...if we have to pay premium money for a safe residence then i am all for it ! Obviously i don't wanna break the bank but the bottom line is safety over there .... i have heard some horror stories as i am sure most of you have heard the same .
The BIG tournament that we are dying to go to and the original reason we started to talk about going to South America is the one in Argentina .... this is the tournament that can't give us a date ! And the other countries are put on hold organizing theirs ... obviously they are not happy and we are not exactly pleased that we can't get a straight answer from them , but we are willing to wait . The problem is the more we wait the more the flight goes up , if it gets to a certain point we will have to cancel ! We don't want this to happen so more then likely we will wait 2 more weeks and just pick our own dates .... i am not a fan of doing this because more then likely we will miss the tournament that we originally wanted to go to so badly . So hopefully we pick our dates and they work with ours ... if not oh well we tried ....
keep your fingers crossed , hopefully they can decide on a date in the next 2 weeks :)
The first tourney we will visit is in Rio de Janeiro , which the organizer is very relaxed and has not been pushing for a date . They are setting up a mini tourney for us there with local teams and are putting us into a nice hotel there also , its gonna be pricey in Brazil but the bottom line is staying somewhere safe ...if we have to pay premium money for a safe residence then i am all for it ! Obviously i don't wanna break the bank but the bottom line is safety over there .... i have heard some horror stories as i am sure most of you have heard the same .
The BIG tournament that we are dying to go to and the original reason we started to talk about going to South America is the one in Argentina .... this is the tournament that can't give us a date ! And the other countries are put on hold organizing theirs ... obviously they are not happy and we are not exactly pleased that we can't get a straight answer from them , but we are willing to wait . The problem is the more we wait the more the flight goes up , if it gets to a certain point we will have to cancel ! We don't want this to happen so more then likely we will wait 2 more weeks and just pick our own dates .... i am not a fan of doing this because more then likely we will miss the tournament that we originally wanted to go to so badly . So hopefully we pick our dates and they work with ours ... if not oh well we tried ....
keep your fingers crossed , hopefully they can decide on a date in the next 2 weeks :)
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