The final day of Little League was today. The original idea was for the kids to have a couple of games and then some food. What actually happened was it rained, so there were fewer games and mostly no food.
The lass was the luckier of the two. Her games were completed before the heavy stuff started falling. Then she put up some kind of stink about the cookie she was offered. I left the Wife to deal with it because if I’d stayed things would have gotten ugly. I can’t stand it when the pull an attitude over something that is meant as an act of kindness.
The boy barely got a game in. As it was, he ended up playing on a make-shift field because the actual field was so water logged that no one wanted them playing in the mud and muck. Come about the 2nd inning, the skies really opened up and the decision was made for us. Parents were scrambling. Kids were scrambling after their parents. Everyone and everything was wet.
Good times.
There’s a Scout fishing derby tomorrow as well. Fishing, of course, requires fishing rods. Neither of the kids have their own so we rectified that with a trip to Cabela’s after everyone had dried out from the morning.
The Cabela’s store is a great place to just go to. It’s huge, for one thing. And the fact that the layout is completely open makes it seem even bigger. The rather large display of taxidermy on a large “mountain” in the middle of the store doesn’t hurt either. In addition, there’s a couple of large fish tanks with trout, pike and other local fresh water fish. Supposedly, fly fisherman can actually fish there to test out their bait and the like, but I’ve never actually witnessed it.
We found the kids’ rods, which also came with a little extra tackle like bobs and several types of lures. So they were excited about that. Whether they’ll be able to put them to good use remains to be seen. They still have to go rustle up some bait. I figure with all the rain, they should be able to walk around a pick worms up off the ground.
Supposedly the rainy weather is good for fishing. Guess we’ll find out tomorrow.