Necessity Souvenir Sweater: $50
Program/marker for score keeping: $3
2 ponchos: $10
Food: $15
Spending an hour in the indoor track stadium due to tornado threat, an hour and a half in the rain only hoping to see a game, and never getting to see an actual game but still get quality time with the husband: PRICELESS
This past weekend I planned a short getaway for me and DJ (without the kids). He has wanted to see the Razorback Baseball team play all season. So, I bought the tickets, arranged for the kids to stay at grandparents, and for us to stay with his sister in Eureka Springs. It was going to be PERFECT! We arrive in Fayetteville with cloudy and threatening weather, but we were optimistic that the game would still play. Not realizing how much cooler it is up there we didn't pack any warm clothes. So, when the storm started blowing in we started to get pretty cold. Our souvenir was a sweater jacket for me and DJ a rain poncho (since they didn't have his size in a sweater). Then we get our food and just as we are about to sit in our sets the announcer comes on and informs us that the field must be evacuated due to an emergency (tornado) and everyone much move to the indoor track stadium across the way from the baseball stadium. It wasn't too surprising since the tornado sirens started going off while we were getting our food. So after spending an hour in the track stadium, we moved back to the baseball field only to sit in the drizzling and sprinkling rain. We toughed it out for another hour and a half until the game was finally called. The make up game was going to be the next day (Saturday) at noon. We originally planed on driving back to Little Rock around that time, but since we really wanted to see a game after driving all that way, we made a few calls to see if we could stay for the make up game. Everything was worked out for the new plan and so we headed to Eureka Springs for the night. It was nice to visit with his sister's family that night and next morning. Saturday we decided the game was probably going to be canceled due to the weather coming in from Oklahoma and we would not try to make it. Unfortunately we didn't get our money back for the tickets since the game was made up around 5pm on Saturday. It would have been a great game sine we were playing LSU. Oh well, maybe we can see one next season. After all that went wrong, it wasn't a wasted trip after all. DJ and I got to spend around 8 hours in the car just talking and connecting like we haven't been able to do in a long time. It was a great trip after all! Thanks for taking it with me honey, I love you!
DJ chowing down on an overly priced hot dog while waiting out the tornado in the track stadium.
Tusk trying to keep everyone calm and happy
Our heart shaped stamps so we could get back in the baseball field
Toughing it in the rain
The field score board.
The rain coming down pretty hard on the infield tarp.
2 comments:
That's a weekend getaway you will be able to talk about for years!
That will definitely be one you remember! And ended up great anyways! :)
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