Summer Vacation: Houston Way
Ok, before I tell you about our last ball game, a funny bit about our way home. So, we didn’t want Jack to know we were just 2-3 hours from home when we stopped at Corsicana in the middle of the night. I told Jack that he could wake me up at 6:00 if he was awake. 6:00 on the dot I was gently being shaken awake along with a quiet, “Amy, Aunt Amy”. He would later tell me he was up at 4:00, 4:30, 5:00, 5:30 and that finally it was 6:00. He wanted to get home and he thought we had about five hours to go.
So, we get less than 30-45 minutes from his house, he calls his Pa-Pa and tells him where we are. . . then tells him we have 2-3 hours to go. LOL! I know his Pa-Pa thought he must have been crazy. 15 minutes later we were passing the place he had his birthday part several years ago. He didn’t believe me when I told him we were getting close and said we still had a few hours to go. I told him that the Incredible Pizza where we’d gone to his birthday party was coming up on the right and he still didn’t believe me. It wasn’t until after he actually saw it that he began to recognize where we were.
That evening, Tuesday, the Royals were playing in Houston after a day off. Wouldn’t have been nice to catch the team plane to Houston, right?
It was a chance for us to watch one more game but share it with him mom- who being from Houston found herself suddenly conflicted with whether to root for the Astors or the Royals- since she was now face to face with the three of us rooting against the local team.
We had some great seats and it was lots of fun to be close- just seven rows up from the third base line. Zack was pitching and we were hoping to see our losing streak come to a close.
It was really close and we got to see Soria come for Zack in the 9th. . . The Astros got some baserunners and I knew Jack was going to be crushed if the Royals didn’t win after they’d been in the lead for most of the game.
In the end, the ROYALS WON! We were happy campers and held our heads high as we walked out of Minute Maid in our Royals gear.
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Billy Butler got a home run that we had a great view of. And, we got to see Zack bat.
Wednesday, we said our goodbye’s and headed home. It turned out we needed the days to catch up on the mounds of laundry and the rest we needed.
The Royals would go on to win the series after winning when we got home.
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