Rachel was bone tired as she lay in the hot bath she had just drawn, her whole body aching from the pounding it had taken at this afternoons practice. Rachel was a starting forward on a womens professional basketball team out of Chicago, and Coach Jim Danvers had worked them to death after last nights embarrassing home loss to Detroit. He had a right be upset! They really had stunk it up and the three hour practice had been an absolute killer. Tomorrow would be a lot easier, however, since they were only going to have a light shoot around and chalk talk to get ready for the next game against the Liberty Belles. After the shoot around they would get on a bus and head straight to the airport for their direct flight Philly. The season had turned into a grind so the team was looking forward to a free night in the City of Brotherly Love.
The plane took off from OHare Field at exactly 1:00pm. and The Big Windy was soon just a speck in the distance as the 737 charter headed east across Lake Michigan towards Pennsylvania. It was only a two hour flight so Rachel decided to catch up on some reading, while most of her teammates either watched the in flight movie or slept. The nice thing about a charter flight was that there was always plenty of room to move around and everyone had plenty of room to stretch out. Before she knew it the stewardess was telling everyone to buckle up and to get ready to land in five minutes. The plane touched down in a perfect landing and taxied up to the terminal while Rachel and her team mates gathered up their things and headed to the door and boarded the team to the bus that was waiting to take them to their hotel downtown.
Rachel really liked Philadelphia because there was a lot of historic stuff to see and it had some of the best restaurants in the league! The bus pulled up in front of the hotel and everyone piled out and went inside to check in. It is a little known but true fact that in most womens professional sports the players ... Læs hele novellen
