Father's Day Weekend

Well, we are almost through this Father's Day weekend. Here in Omaha, the NCAA College World Series began yesterday and this town will be consumed with the event for the next week and a half or so. We love hosting the CWS and college players all over the country love coming here. I believe we've been hosting it for 50-some years so far and we just signed a contract with the NCAA to host it for an additional 25 years beyond our existing contract, thanks to a new stadium being built downtown.

Keeping with the sports-related theme, Katy and I drove down to KC yesterday to watch part of a tournament Claire's softball team was playing in. Unfortunately, the games started so early we were only able to catch the last 20-25 minutes of her second game, then the third game of the day later that evening at 6 p.m. In between, we had lunch with everyone, and then spent part of the afternoon with her before going back for her final game of the day. Though her team didn't play as well as they'd hoped in terms of results, they did give great effort. It's hard to play your third game of the day, though, 8 hours after the second one ended. I know, since I've done it before in tournaments as well.

Claire gave me a super cool Napoleon Dynamite card, key ring and Pet Tornado (not kidding), all of which I just love, for Father's Day. This morning, Zac greeted me with a 3-D card featuring monkeys on the front, which he finds fascinating, and a great older movie, "The Thrill Of It All", starring Doris Day and James Garner. Very funny movie. Then Katy gave me a pop-up card (my favorite kind) and the DVD for "The Number 23", which was a thriller starring Jim Carrey that we saw last year. Great story and very suspenseful.

We then headed off to Chad & Mickie's church for the baby dedication of the twins this morning, and off to La Mesa for lunch, which is a very good Mexican restaurant with a few locations around town. It's been a good day, though after yesterday's long travel day and getting up so early, we're taking it easy the rest of the day. Happy Father Day!