Meeting Jennie

After piano lessons tonight, we headed back to the World Cup of Softball to catch the end of the title game (USA vs Japan) and stayed for the autograph session. It took us an hour to get though it, and we were one of the very last ones to make the cut before they ended the session (actually, the DID try to end the session), but Darby did, in fact, get to briefly meet the role model and face of her sport, Jennie Finch.

We only saw the last half of the game (we got in for free because the ticket booth was closed), but what we saw was good, and Team USA wrapped up the Cup with a 5-1 win over Japan. Afterward there was an award ceremony, with several people saying nice things about Jennie and her legacy, now that she is retired from USA Softball.



The line for Jennie's autograph didn't SEEM that long, but it still took the hour to get through, and we were half-way through it, so a lot of people left disappointed.



Here's Darby and Jennie. I wanted to get a better picture of the two of them, but they were really rushing things along as they had announced the session was over but Jennie kept signing until they made her stop.