We finally won a game 5 to 4. It was awesome! It was the last game we played before John and I and the kids took off. Here's how it went:
GAME TIME: 7:00 p.m. Monday against the West Virginia b2bombers
SCORE: 8:00 p.m. 3 to 3......top of the 4th.
GAME DELAY: 8:05 p.m........raining so hard you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.
DECISION: 9:00 p.m........game rescheduled until 8 tomorrow morning.
GILCHRIST PLAN: We needed to leave 6 a.m. Tuesday morning.
PROBLEM: We would miss the ending of the first game that we were winning to get back to Northbrook
TELLING JOHNNY: 10:30 p.m. we met him at the barrack fence in the sheeting rain; his coached walked him to the gate with a rain poncho on, an umbrella in hand, in the dark, with a very sad little boy. We gave him a hug and wished him luck for the game the next morning.
OUT OF A CLIP FROM A VERY SAD MOVIE: Johnny and Coach Bob walked slowly back in the dark, in pouring rain, with Bob's hand around Johnny slumping shoulders as they headed toward the barracks.
OUTCOME: Mom and Dad cried of a broken heart.
So...........the next morning, as we pulled out of town, I started to bawl, thinking of Johnny walking so sad in the rain that night. John looked at me, turned the car around, stopped at a McDonalds, opened the trunk, put his coaching shirt and cap on, and we headed back to town just in time to make the start of the game.
JOHNNY HAD A HUGE SMILE ON HIS FACE WHEN WE ARRIVED.......AND WE WON!!
We left right after the game for Northbrook on a high note.
ALL ENDED WELL.
Last pictures I took during the winning game:
BLUEBERRY PICKING ON THE LAST DAY WE WERE THERE
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| HOLLY'S NEW FRIEND SHE MADE IN THE DUG OUT ; ) --PAYTON |
HOME SAFE AND SOUND. JOHNNY WILL BE HOME FRIDAY. THEY FINISHED 91 OUT OF 104 TEAMS. BETTER THAN LAST PLACE.
HE'S CALLED ME TWICE TODAY. I THINK HE IS READY TO COME HOME.
3 comments:
Yeah Johnny! That is a memory he will always have! Congrats. It sounds like it was an experience of a lifetime
That is such a great story, Bridgette! At least they won the game.
Glad you were able to stay! What a surprise for him. I was looking at your blueberry bushes and they are so much taller than ours we picked at the cabin.. We had to pick them off bushes 2 inches from the ground in the wild.
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