Traveling Together - Winter Garden

It almost seemed like I didn't sleep...oh wait...I didn't!!

Sunday morning at 7:00am was our check-in time for the tournament. Scout and Curly came with Baby Doll and me and we left at 6 to get to the Convention Center.

Traffic was crazy!!

They have at least 150 courts set up in the Convention Center. People cheering and yelling; balls bouncing and leaving their own courts. Scout got hit in the face during warmups.

Baby Doll's team won one of the 3 matches they played.

After the games were over, we headed out to Boggy Creek to do an Airboat ride. It was the six of us and both of Baby Doll's coaches. We got there way early. So they let us wander around.

Lightening eventually canceled the airboat ride. So we went out to dinner with the coaches.

They wanted to go to a mini-golf place. The food was really good.

Sport bought us all ice cream. It was even better!

Traveling Together - Red-Eye

It's finally here! Our long-awaited trip to Orlando for Baby Doll's volleyball Nationals tournament. We decided to make it a bit easier on Bossy since Gamer had to stay home because of work by taking the the red-eye so her little ones would sleep. There are 7 in her group, 6 in mine, and 7 in the group with Teach and Drama Queen. It's almost like a family reunion with 8 of my 12 kids here. We came in early Saturday morning, but Teach's group is driving and they will be in later today.

Our flight left just before midnight. Thankfully, the airport was pretty quiet at that hour.

We got into Orlando around 6am. Everyone was tired and grumpy, and we still had to get luggage and our rental cars before we could drive the 40 or so minutes to our Hilton suites at Aqua Sol.

Some of us slept the day away. I got about 3 hours before Bossy and I went to the 'required for owners' Hilton presentation. After a couple of hours, I dropped her and Bright Eyes at the complex and then I went grocery shopping at Aldi's.

I can’t really afford restaurants all week and our suites have full kitchens. We ate spaghetti and meatballs for dinner and played games.

The rain shut down the pools and waterslide, so we watched the lightening from our 3rd story deck. 

Afterwards, we all watched Sheep Detectives except for Sport. He hasn't been feeling well.

Tournament starts early tomorrow. Let's GO!!!

Old Time Baseball

Last Saturday, Scout, Baby Doll, Grandpa and I headed out early with our sites set on Nephi. It is Grandpa's hometown and the city was recreating the first baseball game played this side of the Missouri River.

One of my relatives, my 4 greats uncle, played centerfield in that original game. We thought it was his father, who would have been in our direct line, but they used the wrong pic and everybody was confused.

L'il Bro and his family were there.

They left early and Bossy's family showed up late.

The Whitmores were our team and they won!! Bossy stayed until the end, but we had more places to go so we left early. Grandpa was getting tired.

We stopped at Terrel's for donuts; they had doubled in price.

Then we got lunch at the Dairy Freeze before we drove to Fairview for our final stop. My siblings wanted me to donate my mom's rifle to the museum there.

Sorry I have no pics. It was a great and exhausting day. I'm glad Scout did all the driving.

Wordless Wednesday - New Jersey Cuties

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