Project 365 ~ Day 59 (Saturday, February 28, 2009)

Today is Little League Opening Day! All of the teams of the Nasa Area Little League lined up on decorated floats for a 9 a.m. parade. And...all the team players had bubble gum and/or candy to throw-out to the parade viewers! The boys (team players) have as much fun, if not more, than the siblings trying to catch the candy that they are tossing to them from the floats! A funny thing happened with our float, however (and I am sure it was not funny to the dads at the time). One of the team player's dad's made some awesome large wooden Astro's stars to put on the flat bed to decorate the sides and back of our team's float. They were scurrying in an attempt to hurry to get all nailed in place by the time the parade headed out of the parking lot. Well, as soon as they got to the end of the parking lot, they were stuck! It seems that the beautifully made wooden stars were too tall to fit through the height limit at the parking lot entrances! Not only did they hold up the floats following behind them, but they had to quickly dismantle the wooden stars even more quickly than they had nailed them up! And the parking lot entrance was only a few yards from where the float had started. After all of that, everything turned out to be a beautiful day! The boys teams were all announced on the major ball park diamond and then they all enjoyed a rock climbing wall, inflatables, cake walk (my son won TWO cakes!), hair painting (my son had an Astro's red and black star spray painted on the top of his head), pitching game, tug of war, etc., not to mention all the food provided by Chick-Fil-A. (BTW, Chick-Fil-A is another fast food restaurant that I had not heard of before moving to Texas)!