baseball fever

OVer the summer we went to a large number of American Legion baseball games, which I thought would drive me crazy since I'm not much of a baseball fan, but the boys made it fun to watch. They were awesome at hitting the ball, and had some pretty decent pitchers... including one kid who we will likely see in the major leagues one day. Keep your eye out for Scotty Jameson in a few years. He's in his first year of college now, and before pitching in college, he has a low 90mph fast ball.
In Wyoming, the A and AA program is combined at the state level, and they have to play each other. Our boys won as much as they needed to in order to get to regionals for A ball. We got to do some traveling with the team to Rock Springs, and ultimately a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah. It was pretty awesome! They took third place, which was one of those heart breaker games that saw the bases loaded, and a final strikeout to end the game with us one point shy of tying things up. I really thought a little different pitching lineup and we'd have won no trouble.. but, thats okay. In its own way, it worked out. Sierra got the flu that day, and was sick the drive home. I felt so bad for her. The next day, I was down for the count, and the following day, Randal and I were both sick.
While in Salt Lake, we went to the zoo, which was smaller than I expected, but still pretty decent. Sierra liked the bears the most. We got her a stuffed Fossa, (from Madagascar), which has turned out to be one of her favorite stuffed animals! We got Trevor a turtle, and he seemed to really love that too. He said he didn't have a turtle before. Randal also took me around downtown so I could see the Mormon temple, and whatnot. His sister requested we find her insurance company and tell them off for her in person ...we never did find them.
We also went out to the salt flats, saw the great salt lake, played in teh desert a lil and ...the craziest thing of all... we were greeted to salt lake by a wildfire!
We almost didn't get to our hotel because the fire was on both sides of the road. About 5 minutes after we got through they shut the expressway. They had it pretty much out that night, which was good, but we missed a lot of the mountain scenery as a result.
The one thing we were told we had to do when in Salt Lake was go to a restaurant called The Red Iguana. IT was THE best mexican food we have ever had the pleasure of eating. I highly reccommend it! IT isn't much to look at from teh outside, and I can see why it made Diners, Drive-ins and Dives on the Food Network. We also saw a few places teh olympics had been held at, including the olympic oval. The baseball stadium was one of the nicest I have ever been in. There were some things about the tournament that needed help, but overall, it was a great experience.
We didn't get to go, but the BAbe Ruth kids made it to regionals as well. They were in Washington. Hopefully that means next year will be another trip to regionals for Legion ball!