Rain Rain Rain - Thursday/Friday

Things start running together Thursday and Friday. It was just rain and more rain with us checking the site every few hours to see if we would play. The tournament folks officially seeded everyone off of their first pool play game since many teams didn't get to play 2. Since that was the game we were up 13-0, that put us at #1 seed and we got a bye the first round. It worked well in our favor. They also had to change the format from a double elimination tourney to a single elimination tourney because there was only 1 day left to play, Saturday. They said they would not play games on Sunday no matter what because that was a travel day many teams needed and something about the City of Clearwater owned the parks and they were closed on Sundays.

It rained all day Thursday and Friday but not real hard so the girls were able to swim and enjoy themselves while I watched from under the patio roof, I hate being wet. It has not been a good week for me in terms of that.

Beating up on Rick was the favorite pastime of the girls

Thursday night, someone had a wonderful idea that the parents (some of whom had been drinking all day from boredom) should all go out without the kids and we should take the bus. Grandparents and older siblings watched all the kids at the hotel and the bus took us all out to eat. We had a lot of fun and we have never all been out like that without the kids. We should do it more often but we don't have time, we're always together but at the ball park. We all met in the hotel bar and when we realized there was a piano, we called Millie to come down and play for us. She was a hit!

On the bus