House of Rain and Fog (St. Louis style)

Before I launch into a more detailed synopsis of the weekend and because I'm still pretty exhausted and running behind schedule, I thought I'd shoot everyone a relatively quick summary.

Saturday was completely rained out, so LL and I lounged around the hotel room, swam, found a place for ribs and generally relaxed. The tournament gave an update at noon and then at 6 as to whether they were going to play or not, so we couldn't do anything elaborate since we didn't know if we were going to play in short order or not at all. It turned out to be not at all on Saturday.

Sunday morning though, we were off and running, so we thought. Another delay while final prep work to the fields took place. We played at 11 finally though and won. Then played at 5 and won again, earning us the right to play at 3 a.m. Yeah, amazing. They had games going ALL NIGHT LONG. Every hour on the hour, four games.

Have you ever gotten up at 3 or 4 in the morning because you were traveling out of the country or driving somewhere with your parents on a car trip or something? Remember that feeling? That's how I felt and then we had to go play a softball game. Strangely, I was 3-4 in that game with some big two out, RBI hits. I barely remember being awake.

That allowed us to get a few hours of sleep and be back for a 9 a.m. game, or so we thought. It turns out that fog rolled in and delayed games further. We ended up playing 7 games on Monday with 6 of them back to back and we finished in third place out of 58 teams. Though called a "National" tournament, it was really a Midwest regional event. Teams were from Minnesota (there were several teams from MN, but the team we beat were whiners, so we were happy to beat them), Illinois (we were the highest finishing team from our State), Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin. The two teams that finished ahead of us both hailed from the St. Louis area.

The five hour drive home was a bit of a bear on top of playing all of those games. It made for a long evening. More to come and hopefully some pictures!!