Bethanie Mattek Blogs from Western & Southern Financial Group Womens Open Cincinnati Tuesday August 11th

Bethanie Mattek Blogs from Western & Southern Financial Group Womens Open Cincinnati Tuesday August 11th

Check out Bethanie Mattek’s new blog post from Cincinnati… Bethanie talks about many things like what she did during the day, her expirience at the Kings Island park, movies and how her horse died a few days ago…

Tuesday, August 11, 2009

So today Tathiana Garbin, Alla Kudryavtseva and I went to the amusement park and it was intense… I like coasters, but I get motion sickness in CARS. We went on the roller coaster but then they told us to go on it once more to get a different angle, and I just couldn’t… they went again though, but when they got off it started raining and everything shut down. It was a cool visit though!

That wasn’t the first thing I did today. We started our day pretty late though, because my husband is still on Arizona/California time, and we slept in until 11 or so. I wanted to have the day off from practice but we went to Urban Fitness to work out. They have this cinema cardio there, where you work out in front of a big screen showing movies… I didn’t do it but it’s such a great idea. We worked out for a few hours; I just did the stuff my trainer tells me to do. Then I went to Kings Island, then ate at the Polo Grill across from the hotel – I’ve been there once already this trip and it was really good, so I had to go again

We just got back from dinner. Nadia and I are playing the night match tomorrow, so I can stay up a little late tonight. What are we in the mood for… I think we’ll rent a movie. Since coming here I’ve watched Fast And The Furious, also Night At The Museum 2… I’m more of an action/drama person. I don’t like horror movies. I get nightmares from horror. Actually I have some good stories…

There’s a scene from Psycho where someone is killed through a shower curtain. For years I took showers with the curtain and door open. This was when I was younger. The movie Scream gave me nightmares too, and it was bad whenever I’d be at a friend’s house with a pool and patio… Then there was The Ring. I told myself not to wimp out and I saw it. My friend and I were in the theater, both crouched in our seats. We were the only people in the whole theater. At one point during the movie I looked back and about seven rows behind us there were two guys sitting there with Scream masks on. SCREAM MASKS. I hated it! If there was ever a prank to pull on me… I crouched back into my seat. I told my friend to look back and when she eventually did, they were gone. I will never watch another horror movie. No peer pressure could make me!

I actually have a bit of sad news… I have a horse, my husband got her for me, but two nights ago we learned she had died. She was actually attacked by a mountain lion! We kept her at a ranch a few miles away from our home, out in the sticks. Her name was Katie. The last time I rode her she totally took off on me. I’m not very experienced at riding, so I probably wasn’t doing it right, but we were kind of near some cliffs so I got a bit nervous! Justin (my husband) was on his horse a little way back. My horse wiped out while I was still on her and she had scratches on her face, but she just got up and I was still on her. She was something else. I cried when I found out. I had good memories. It was brutal. It was probably tough for the kid who found her dead, because there’s a family at this ranch that takes care of the horses and rides them too. I would probably have been devastated if I had found her.

Anyway, on a lighter note… the Waffle House was great last night. Actually two other players, two Polish girls, came in too, which was nice! I got seven eggs and 10 pieces of extra crispy bacon… you know the kind that is so crispy and it just dissolves… I had a stomach ache afterwards, yes, but it was worth it!

I’ll talk to you all again tomorrow night… enjoy the pic!

Bethanie

Blog and photo from WTA