Friday morning I had a coffee meeting in the morning with a guy with whom I worked a few years ago. We chatted away catching up on each other's lives. Right after the meeting, I went to the gym and put in my 2.5 miles, getting home just in time to head to the Cubs/Cardinals game. Unfortunately, LL is a Cardinals fan...boooooooo....and the Cards won after scoring 5 in the first inning. We rented a movie and had Thai food for dinner as Saturday was going to be an early call.
Because of a softball tournament, I had to be in Joliet at 8 a.m., so I had to leave at 7 and get up at 6. It was a pretty big tournament and we did not come out to play in the first game. We were trailing 12-0 after 4 innings before we finally put some offense together and scored 8 while holding them to nothing. 12-8 was the final score though. Ugh. It was 92-94 degrees during the day, but we managed to run off three wins to get to play on Sunday morning at 9 a.m.
First though was the Blackhawks' game Saturday night, which most of the team watched together at a local bar and restaurant. The Hawks won 6-5 in a very entertaining game. While LL and I went back to her folks' place to spend the night right after the game, most of the team went out drinking and it showed in their play come Sunday morning. We were supposed to have batting practice at 8:15 for our 9 a.m. game, but only the two oldest guys on the team were at the fields ready to go at 8:15 and most of the team straggled in around 8:30 or 8:40. So again we had a awful start and couldn't recover, losing 18-8. The team to which we lost ended up winning 6 straight and finished in second place, but we did not give it our best effort and it was definitely related to guys not being ready to play. Shit.
LL's mom took some pictures of the team Sunday morning and I'll post some of those pictures tomorrow. Good stuff!
After cooling down and cleaning up back at LL's folks' place, we headed to Mokena for Terry and Sandie's annual Memorial Day party. We try not to miss it and it didn't disappoint again! Here are some pictures of the great spread:
Here are the appetizer dishes and salads. Some of my favorites were the Asian salad and the mini-Caprese (a mozzarella ball, cherry tomato and bit of basil on a toothpick). I ate so much I really can't remember all of the dishes....oh yeah, there was a spinach salad with bacon....yum.
Here's the main course spread: chicken, lasagna, chicken parmesan, sliced bone in ribeye, and much more. The kitchen was remodel since last year. You can check out more pictures in last year's entry, including a pic of Terry. Sandie has avoided the camera two years in a row now!! I'll put an end to that next year.
Here's the dessert table spread. Soooo much good stuff here including carrot cake, lemon meringue, key lime pie and a cool cookie.
Here's that cookie! Nice! Unfortunately, we were so tired from being out in the heat all day Saturday, we left much earlier than we did last year. We just ran out of gas.
Monday brought a trip out to Naperville and a visit with my family and lunch. Good food was grilled and we had a nice time. The Blackhawks played game 2 on Monday night and we won again and again by one goal, this time 2-1. A very exciting game.
I hope you all had a great weekend!!!
2 comments:
that is a VAST array of food. How many people come to this thing? Must take a while to prepare it all!
LL is a Cardinal fan? Didn't this come out in the early vetting process? Talk about sleeping with the enemy.
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