This weekend, we put the "travel" in travel ball. After Brandon's baseball practice and Peyton's basketball practice Friday night, we packed and got ready for an early headstart on Saturday. The first game was 930 am, meaning we had to be there at 830 am, meaning we had to leave at 7 am since our field was in Manteca. We got up by 6 am, and Peyton heard my alarm and got herself ready. She doesn't do it for much else, but softball is a different story. The two of us headed out ourselves, as Brandon had basketball practice, so he stayed with Dave for that from 10 to 12 pm. They would miss our first game. Peyton was going to be leadoff batter for our first game. She was playing against a tough pitcher, and she struck out a few times. She didn't do well at all on Saturday, even after Dave showed up. Luckily, she didn't get down on herself about it, and she is no longer crying after strikeouts. She was playing second base as well as right field, as they had a ringer pitcher come out.
After the first game, Dave and Brandon showed up to Big League Dreams, which is a park that has 6 fields, all replicas of famous MLB stadiums. She was playing at Yankee Stadium, and I gave my dad a shot of her "playing" there, as it's his favorite team.
They finished up two games there, going 1-2 for the day. The highlight of the games for Peyton was when the two youngest girls were playing center field (V) and right field (Peyton). A batter hit a pop fly to center, and the littlest girl on the field, Little, who is a head shorter than Peyton, dove for the ball and came up with it in her glove. The next batter hit one to Peyton, who had to run in, and made the catch on the run, down by her feet. It wasn't enough to win the game, but it was good fielding nevertheless. The girls headed back to the hotel and straight to the pool. There were some baseball boys that showed up about an hour in, and they just sat and watched through the windows in their full uniforms at the girls. Then did join, and some of them were a bit rough. They were probably Brandon's age or younger. But he was annoyed by them, so he got out and showered himself up. Dave was out getting dinner with some other parents, so I was on kid duty. Peyton got hit in the eye with one of them, so I pulled her out to recover. Finally, when the food arrived, the girls showered up and joined us for dinner.
The Sunday game started bright and early at 8 am. Luckily, we were staying close enough. The girls had to be there by 7 am, and breakfast was not supposed to start until then. Fortunately, the front desk staff opened up early, by 630 am or earlier. While Brandon and I got up, Dave reminded me we had 2 cars, so there was no rush for us. Brandon had to get up at 6 am two mornings in a row. He can't sleep in anyway, especially if there is any noise. SO we headed out shortly after they did.
Peyton was lead off batter again, and she did a much better job.
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She got up again in this game:
Too bad, it was a nice hit, but it went right back to the pitcher who fielded it cleanly.
We ended up losing this game, though we'd been up for most of the game. That sent us to the silver bracket back at the other field at 11 am. I sent an email off to the piano teacher that we'd be missing out on the performance party at 130 pm. We went back to that field and waited until our game to start. The other teams were headed over as well. We were playing a team we'd beaten in a previous tournament. It was a tough battle, and it came down to a tie breaker. We were the home team and held the other team with bases loaded.
Here is a pickle Peyton got herself into:
I secretly think she loves it, as it's an adrenaline rush!
It was our turn up, and we got the runs in, with the last one being a walked in run for the win. We were moving on to the next game at 2 pm. I was getting nervous about our 630 pm little mermaid tickets in SJ. Dave had to get Brandon to practice by 530 pm.
The game at 2 pm was against the team that we'd barely beaten the day before. We were a player down, as she was going back home to see her grandma, who was not doing well and was in the hospital.
We struggled, and it was not the same outcome as the day before. We were ousted in the semifinal game. Dave had left halfway through the game, while I left just after. She slept in the car, while I drove us back to SJ. She woke up just as we were getting off the freeway, after sleeping maybe an hour.
We enjoyed the musical; she was a great date! We went potty to start, walked around, she didn't want anything to eat, nothing by way of souvenirs, as she thought the t-shirts were too expensive ($25-40), which she was right for a kid's shirt. I got myself one in my size, but not the one I'd wanted. We both yawned a few times during the show. We were sitting in the second row, one row behind our seats for Annie. She enjoyed it as did I. We got home just after 9 pm, and she showered up and got ready for bed. Brandon was eagerly awaiting our return. What a weekend! I don't think we could have packed any more in than we did.
Here are the pictures:
On the way over
chilis between game one and two on Saturday 
yankee stadium 
hitting at Yankee stadium 
it looks like there are people in the stands back there 
Detroit. Tiger stadium. 
just chilling between games 
Assume her position