sunday august 8, 2010

you have got to be kidding me.

this is my fifth summer that god has granted me the good health and reasonable amount of sanity to partake in these baseball road trips. there has been rain, there have been rain delays, there has been batting practice and tours of the stadium. there have been security guards that i have fought with over rules and regulations of what you can and cannot bring into a ball park and there have been security guards that, despite my not being blonde with perfect boobs, have let me bring in things that i shouldn't have been able to(i am not talking about drugs or guns...but bottles of soda and snacks....)there has been hair curling humidity(and for ari, hair growing humidity) and there has been perfect weather....today, though, we hit bottom. today confirmed for me that as part of my 40th birthday year long celebration i will be taking next year's road trip off.....today....we experienced our first official rain-out.

for those of you who dont know what a rain out is...its starts with you bringing your boys to the game two hours early so they can get autographs. it starts with the big gray cloud that hovers over the field...this gray cloud then begins to set off a rain shower that delays the start of the game...you know this, because the men in cute shorts come out and cover the infield....and then, an hour later, those same men take the tarp off of the infield. and then the gray cloud comes back (after two outs in the first inning) and it starts to pour. the tarp goes back on the infield and you dont care if the men are cute or not....

as the marlins stadium also doubles as a football field, you cant run up to the covered seats unless you have a club-ticket. if you are married to a ganchrow, you dont have this ticket and you have to sit near the concession stands with all of the common folk.....it is now 6 hours after you entered the stadium. it is still pouring. the boys are fighting....the parents are fighting....the mom is hungry(you can see where this is going.....)

rock bottom i tell you.....

off to myrtle beach to watch the exciting myrtle beach pelicans(and i am not joking about the name.....)

congratulations to all the mothers of new baby boys that were born this week while we were away...

happy sunday...tomorrow is a travel day....