Come Monday It'll Be Alright

Ryan and I had such a fun week last week! We had a voucher for a couple free tickets to a Ranger game, so Wednesday night after work we headed out to the Ballpark. We got to sit on the sixth row in section 37. We watched Ian Kinsler hit for the cycle and Nelson Cruz almost get two Grand Slams in one game! Ryan was facebooking as Hank Blalock stepped up to the plate. He was just about to post something about when Hank would get hurt this season, when a foul ball came flying and smacked him in the knee! Had a big knot on his knee and it has bothered him for a few days now! He was so excited...and mad at himself. He would have caught the ball if he wouldn't have been goofing around on his phone :o) We didn't get home until about 11:30, but it was well worth it! Such a fun night. Then on Friday about 4:00 I got a call from our friend Daniel giving us tickets to Friday night's Ranger game. It was so late, it was hard to try to rally up anyone to go with us, plus it had rained all day. So we ended up giving up after a couple of phone calls and just going by ourselves. Fifteen rows behind the Rangers dugout on the aisle. Talk about good seats. And they came with access to the Cuervo Club. So when we got a little cold during the seventh inning, we sang take me out to the ball game then watched the rest of the game from inside (where we sat for Ryan's 30th birthday last year). When the game was over we returned to the seats and watched the fireworks. Pretty cool actually. The Rangers are doing fireworks at every Friday night home game this year :o) We had a really nice time got home about 11:30 again.
Saturday morning we slept in. Showered dressed and headed out to the Jimmy Buffett tailgates a little after noon. If you have never been, I think it is something people should do at least once in their lives. The spectacle is ridiculous. Tons of adults...some in pirate costumes, some in bikinis (most wearing bikinis should not have been wearing bikinis), lots of golf carts decorated zooming around...it is just insane. Our particular group had rented an RV. Mostly to have the use of a restroom....most all the port o potties fill up...and are completely disgusting. Our RV started to fill up about five o'clock there were so many of us using it. So Adam set up his port-o-privey which is a mini tent and you put a bucket in it with this gel stuff. Anywho...next year we know not to spend the money on the RV, just bring several buckets and lots of the gel stuff. One of the guys had brought his smoker, made pulled pork, pulled chicken, beef ribs, burgers, and sausage. Lots of potato salad and potato casserole. Jen (one of the coordinators) had made cupcakes and put blue icing on one side, crushed graham crackers on the other side with an umbrella to make them look like little beaches. They were too cute! We played several games of washers, and lots of dominos. I'm getting better. Definitely not "good" yet, but better for sure. We of course forgot our camera, but a couple of other folks in our group had theirs. As soon as they send me some of the pictures, I will post them. The number of tailgates and the crazy behavior of the folks out there is incredible. You see just about anything and everything. I did find the gigantic Jenga set pretty fun. Looks like they had just taken two by fours and made it themselves. While several parking lots were people that had arrived on Saturday, about half of the lots were people that had been there several days. So you can imagine some of the setups...and the time it took the people to set them up and the amount of time it was going to take them to break them down! I mean elaborate bars, full picnic tables, some even had put down the green turf stuff so you weren't on concrete. Our camp packed up about midnight. Amazing how different the feel was leaving there than just a few short hours earlier. We got home really late. I was so happy to have it quiet again. Everywhere we went there was loud music yesterday! Oh, and did I mention...we didn't even go to the concert! The cheapest tickets we could find were $100 a piece so we decided to just keep our money.
We have taken it easy all day today. Went to On the Border for lunch, doing some laundry and now am about to go to the grocery store. This Thursday we are going to have our heat and air replaced...ugh. I'm thinking it might be a good day to caulk around the windows...use the paint we bought and paint the accidentally blue room....nine months ago...might need to shake it up before I use it huh?