Sitting here relaxing with a cup of coffee, watching Collin eat his cheerios and drink his chocolate milk I made, reading about the Kentucky Wildcats, and posting a couple of stories from my favorite UK writer, Larry Vaught doesn't sound like "busy." It's just the calm after/before the storm.
Everybody else at the house is still sleeping in, after we arrived back home around midnight last night. Yesterday Rachel had a basketball game at 11 a.m., and Sarah was competing in the Auburn Show Choir festival. Sarah's groups performed at 3:00 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., so we had time to go to Rachel's game across town--or at least part of it.
Spoke to her coach and asked if we could take her out early. She said, "NO!," just kidding. So I told her we wouldn't leave unless we had a 10-point lead.
Rachel scored the first bucket of the game on a rebound and offensive putback--for being one of the shorter players, I'm always excited to see a rebound--and we were off. But the whole team was "off," and we struggled to a 9-4 halftime lead. So we stayed for the 3rd quarter. Rachel scored another basket in the 3rd quarter, and the team broke out of its funk to outscore their opponent 12-2 in the quarter, and we left as the 4th quarter began with us scoring again for a 23-6 lead.
We zipped down to Auburn in a little Chevy Aveo rental car from Enterprise. We have three older cars, and when we go out of town--almost always, surrounding a weekend--we get a rental car from the good people at Enterprise. Their 50% weekend rates are very good and hard to turn down for anybody, much less people with cars with odometers all in the 6 figures, as we have. For $15 a day for two days (picked it up Sat a.m. at 9 a.m.), it's hard to beat. Also figured we're getting well in excess of 30 mpg, which is probably close to double the mpg we'd be getting with the van, so our fuel costs are being cut in half.
Caitlin came down from Tuscaloosa for the weekend so she could go to the Festival as well, and visit with Auburn friends from high school. She spent the night in Auburn with a friend and will be coming back to B'ham today. Michael gave her a ride to B'ham, but we will take her back this afternoon--after Collin's 4:00 basketball game, and maybe after Rachel's 5:00 basketball practice. (Oh yeah--we'll be using the rental car again. Did I say we maximize the use of those cars? I'll put over 400 miles on it this weekend, all for $30. Better their cars than mine).
We had a good time at the Festival yesterday, but none of the OMHS show choirs placed, a very disappointing result. Last week we were in Montgomery at a larger competition--and the women's show choir finished 1st, the men's show choir finished 1st, and the mixed show choir finished 2nd. So you never know what judges are thinking.
Next week ends what I call their "spectator competition season," as they travel to Opelika for the Southern Showcase. After that, they will have some different types of regional/state competition that are during school hours, and not meant for spectators. Sarah has been an alternate this year with the mixed group--she does two of their five or six songs in competition--but next week she is supposed to do all six (of course, in addition to performing all the songs with the women's show choir). So if at all possible, we'll try to make it to Opelika next week, too. (Enterprise, keep a car back for me, willya?)
Off to get ready for church.
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