baseball

So it's been about two weeks or so since I wrote last...not much has happened. :-)

Mother's day was nice. I went to the last FSU baseball game with my parents and of course I had to slather on the SPF 50 and use an umbrella to block the sun--dad's orders. It was strange to be back there again...I hadn't been to a game in years. But other than the crowd being abnormally small (mothers day and about 90 degrees), nothing had changed. It was great.

Yesterday I went to another baseball game. One of the students that I took to Italy came to my classroom after school on Friday and handed me an envelope. I opened it to find four tickets to Sunday's Grizzlies game.  Fun!  Except that it was going to be 101.  I struggled with the option of not going for a while, but when I checked the website to see what the promotion was and saw that Will Clark was going to be there signing autographs, I started to get super-excited.  

I remembered that one of Mark's favorite players growing up was Will Clark.  So I dug through all my old baseball cards to find my Will Clark cards--I had four.  The game was scheduled for 2:05 but by 1:00 when Katie and I got to the ballpark, there was already a line for autographs (which were not scheduled to start until 2:15!!).  We stood in the 101 degree shade for TWO AND A HALF hours but finally made it to the front of the line...

...and then went up to watch the game. :-)  So fun!