We left Buffalo a little before 6:00 am and made great time. The weather was clear and the traffic reasonable...until we got to Chicagoland where it became intense. Even though we stayed on I-80, well south of Chicago proper, the volume of traffic increased dramatically. Those 75 miles were more stress than the previous 500. As I get older, I find that it takes longer to drive long distances. Not that I drive any slower but I seem to stop a lot more. The seniors out there will understand.
I might note that both Marilyn and I started religiously tracking our Weight Watcher points as we headed into the danger zone of vacation travel and all the parties that await us in Kansas City.
We arrived in Aurora a little before 4:00, helped by the additional hour provided by Central Daylight Time. that gave us a chance to relax a bit before we were off to the ball fields to see Brady's final game of the season. This has been his first year playing baseball and he enjoyed it a lot. he told me this morning that he wants to play next year. He had a good day at the plate and in the field. He went 2 or 4 with a pretty legit double. After the game and team photo, we went to the team meal in a nearby shelter house. They offered a lovely repast of watermelon, cupcakes slathered with frosting, cheese curls, and candy. Happily Eileen had gotten some frozen pizza thinking that perhaps the team meal would be to our liking or health. We returned home, ate that pizza, had a brownie that Braden had made earlier, visited and then hit the sack.
This is a video of Brady's double.
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