Afternoon daylight

Heya viewers, Michaela speaking 👋,

Today I went up with my family to the tennis courts. Oh, how WONDERFUL it was 😍. In all of my posts, I have nearly gone to the tennis courts everyday. We all enjoyed the day as much as I did! 

As I was saying, we went to the tennis courts and started hitting. Sasha, me and dad and Miles with mum. A few minutes later we did some volleys. Volleys are when you:

• Have your chopper grip ready to hit
• Step forwards with your left foot whilst punching the racket forward at the ball
• WARNING: do not swing the racket (it's not like a forehand)

Volleys are a simple shot we do at the start every time we come up to the courts. 

PING !

They went over perfectly. Although, on the other hand, my little brother, Miles was hitting some fantastic forehands with mum. I thought it might be interesting so I went over to hit with them. As Miles is only little, he is on orange balls (softer balls). Orange balls, well, not really my type but yellow ball are my type.

Miles and mum were on the same team which I really wanted to do. I love hitting on my own.

Soon later, after we had a little hit we were tired out, so we sat down for a minute. 

Like I said in my other post, it is always good to have a little snack 😋. That is exactly what we had. Later on, it was time for lunch. We find it a bit fun to eat our lunch/dinner at the courts. So dad went up to the supermarket to get us some food for lunch.

we had:

• Crusty rolls with ham
• Hula-hoops (crisps, which we put in our rolls, yum!)
• Cocktail sausages
• Jammie dogers
• And strawberries

It was awesome! We sat up on the hill and ate. 

YUM YUM IN MY TUM.

After the yummy, yummy lunch it was time for some super, super hitting. Before we started, I asked dad when we could do some serves. Well, we will catch up to that later on.

I started hitting with mum but NOT with orange balls. But the real problem was that mum had hit with miles so much, that she acted like the balls were orange balls 😠! I was so frustrated. But somehow, there was another problem, mum was serving into the net 😡! So that was the end of hitting with mum. She has to get better at serving!

Speaking of serving, remember I told you about me asking dad about serving. Well he said "I'm just going to hit with Sasha", so I waited and waited until it was time! Whilst I was getting ready to serve, Miles and Sasha were watching a movie in the club house on dads phone📱. Some tips of serving are:

• If you want, start with the racket in a big muscle position (using chopper grip)
• Elbow forwards whilst scratching your back with the edge of the racket
• WARNING: for the second one 👆, make sure that the racket doesn't look like waitress tray
• And then flick the racket above your head

Here is a photo of me serving...

Then, the best bit happened, WE ORDERED DOMINOES PIZZA! It was so yummy. 

I had ham and pineapple pizza with a whole lot of loaded cheese fries 🍕 🍟.

When we had finished, we were ready to go home. We got our bags ready and off we went, on the way home. 

Thanks for listening! Bye for now!

Michaela xxx 💜