Hosed by Redhawks

I picked up the girls early from their mom's today because I wanted to catch a ballgame (a playoff game), but unlike most Saturday games, this one was in the afternoon. Truth be told, I would have rather caught the game on Sunday, but at the time, whether there would be a Sunday game or not was TBD.

The Redhawks were ahead in the five game divisional series two games to one. If they had won today, the series would have been over, and they would have gone on to their conference championship. However, they did not win, and so they are playing again tomorrow.

So I had a dilema... take a chance they would lose the game today and try to go tomorrow, or if they win today, catch the next playoff series. However, given Darby's game schedule next week, I wasn't keen on our ability to make a ballgame in the middle of the week. The killer here is that if they lose tomorrow, the season is over, and I will miss the last game of the season. I could always try to go tomorrow also, but it's already not looking good schedule wise.

I was surprised just how low attendance was (I don't think I've ever seen this bad) for a playoff game. But the girls had a blast, especially considering they got hosed down by the apparently bored Redhawks bullpen pitchers, leaving them quite soaked.


After the game I took the girls to the dollar theater to see Cinderella Story, something they wanted to see when it was in first-run theaters (it's Hilary Duff afterall), but we were on vacation at the time and it didn't last in those theaters long. They liked it a lot, of course, especially Shelby since one of the main character names was Shelby. Her name is not terribly common, so she just eats it up when she sees another Shelby. Personally, not that I'm into these tween movies, I thought Princess Diaries 2, which we saw last weekend, was better.