So, Saturday morning I got up early and got in a nice run before the heat hit, and then we hit the road to Loveland at just about 8:30, getting there at just before 10am. Ryan's first game was scheduled for 10:20, but they ended up playing at around 10:45 or so. Ryan's Dad came to the first game so I had company while watching which was great! They lost their first game, but since it was a double-elimination tournament, they moved to the losers bracket and their next game was scheduled for 12pm, but they didn't play till 1pm. After winning their second game they were due to play again at 3pm, but then a big storm rolled in and the fields became swimming pools... this was where the tournament staff started to cause us concern... we all stood around until 3:30 at which point they told us there'd be a delay until 4:30. Yeah right. Like they'd clean up the oceans by then... but alas, we went to Chili's for a quick bite with the team and returned at 4:30 to see that they had, in fact, ressurrected TWO out of the TEN fields. Yeaaahhh, that was NOT going to cut it. They needed ALL of the fields to complete the brackets as planned that night, but did they make a decision and send some of us home? Nope, we all kinda mingled around for a while, which was fine because Ryan's Mom and her husband came to watch the next game but ended up just hanging out with us. It began raining again at around 5:00 and we stood around waiting for them to call it until 6:30pm. Oy vey! Finally they sent us home and said they'd post online when to expect games for the next day (Sunday)... so home we went.
We got home at around 8:00pm, which was just barely after EVERYTHING closed, we had quite a time finding some supper and ended up with KFC (the new grilled chicken ain't too shabby). We went to the Highlands Ranch fireworks at 9:30, found out Ryan's game was scheduled for 10am the next morning and called it a night.
Sunday morning we hit the road again by 8 or so and he was ready and raring to go for that 10am game... too bad his whole team didn't show. This tournament was QUITE a fiasco. Wait. It gets better. So, adult rec softball is played with 10 players (that's 4 outfielders instead of 3 for all you confused sports' fans out there), and apparently for this particular tournament you NEED to have 9 players to start the game. They had 8 at game time. Luckily, a guy named Ikena ("ee-kenna") was almost there so we were able to stall the umps till he jumped the fence just in the knick of time... so, game on. However, since you're supposed to have 10, that 10th spot is an automatic out each time it comes up to bat on the line-up... yuck. Oh well, off they went... Game On. So, they were up 3-0 and then one guy hit a homerun and guess what?! Homeruns are illegal in this tourney! So that not only counted as an automatic out for him, but then he was no longer allowed to bat and his place in the lineup also became an automatic out... yup, that's right, we now have 2 automatic outs in our line-up. Awesome! So, they continue. They are then down 5-3 but at the bottom of the 5th inning they were on fire, they had the best part of their line-up at bat and the first 2 guys got on base, woo hoo! No outs and the go-ahead run was at the plate... everyone was excited... and then Ikena (who was coaching first base) suddenly STORMS off the field using some colorful language stating that he doesn't need this kind of BLEEEEEP and he's outta there, he mumbled something about no one being able to pronounce his name right (um, hello, it's a hard name and these people don't know you for more than 24 hours) and then literally LEFT. He left. Now guess what... we have 8 people. Game Over. He literally left the team HIGH AND DRY. They had to take a forfeit. Tournament over for the Rockers. Home again Home again jiggity-jig. CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT?! This is a GROWN man!!!???!!! Wow. No words. Rather comical at this point. But very irritating at the time!
The rest of our weekend was far less eventful... we got home early Sunday afternoon and Ryan hit me some fly balls in the outfield to practice my right fielding skills, and then we chilled out a bit watching the Rockies. Then we invited our friend Alicia over for supper because she's new to the area just this weekend, and her hubby already had to go away on work travel! So that was really fun!
Here are some pictures of my fab hubby playing his softball... this coming weekend he has another tourney up in Summit County, so I hope for less drama but more pictures, especially of the beautiful scenery up yonder way.
My kitties are cuddling in the cutest way, I must go cuddle with them!
Thanks for 'listening'!
Oh, and yup, all is still well on the pregnancy front... no news! Our next OB appointment is next Friday (the 17th), so more news then probably. :)
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