What a day! It went from 10 in the morning until 9 at night for us -- and even longer for the boys (and coaches!).
It was opening ceremonies today. We started by swinging by the Athletes' Village around 10. It took us a little while to find the team, as the Village was full of
1300 boys, all about the same size, wearing pretty much the same thing.
If we come again, I will recommend that we get the team distinctive batting helmets -- like maybe fluorescent yellow -- to make them easier to track down. We finally found them taking batting practice.
We hung out and watched for a bit before we realized that Ben didn't want or need us nearby, so we headed over to the stadium.
The coach had recommended staking out a spot early on in the day, but I think we headed over a bit too early, as we were the first ones in the stadium. And weren't joined by anyone else for oh, about three hours. So we left our stuff out to mark our spot, and then headed over to join up with the parents and team for a BBQ lunch. Lots of standing in line, but great grilled corn on the cob.
Lots of speeches
Lots of people
Not a whole lot of baseball, but I look forward to that tomorrow.
Today was marked by lots of junk food
Those pigtails are TOO CUTE!
Posted by: Etta | June 15, 2008 at 12:40 AM
GREAT pics! What a fun adventure :)
~T.
Posted by: bcre8uv | June 15, 2008 at 01:04 AM
funny how 1300 other kids can look just like yours!
Posted by: sue Treiber | June 15, 2008 at 11:26 AM
What an exciting time in a baseball player's life - my 10-yo just finished up his season. They won the semi-finals & then lost in the game immediately after for runner-up position. You must have had great seats if you were there 3-hours early!!!
Enjoy!
Posted by: Jenna | June 15, 2008 at 06:35 PM