Spring Break, Day One & Two

Jamie & I arrived in Tempe, AZ at about 4:00 on Friday...my first stop was a camera repair shop. The news was not good and I'm so bummed! The memory card slot is NOT an easy fix, the entire camera housing has to be replaced. When I asked about having it repaired, they strongly suggested that I just buy a new camera...that it would actually cost less to buy a new camera than to have that one (less than 2 years old!) repaired. They said that cameras are being made like cell phones...made to last a year or so and then be replaced. Damn!
Then I got to drive to Mesa in rush hour traffic!! Welcome to the big city!!

Luckily, my mom has a decent digital camera and is letting me borrow it until I find and can afford to buy the camera I want.

So, to start off our week in the sun, Jamie and I went to see the Cubbies play today at HoHoKam Park. They played the Reds (Jamie's little league team last summer was the Reds) so Jamie wore his Reds gear and I had my Cubs t-shirt. He's going through this phase now where he likes the opposite of anything Bill or I like, so we had a fun & friendly rivalry going. The Cubs won, though, so I had the last laugh! Ha! Ha!

After the game, we went to the park and played our own version of baseball. It started out with me pitching to him (regular baseball & metal youth bat) and him hitting the ball way over my head so that I had to chase it. That version very quickly became not so fun for me as I spent all of my time chasing the ball!! He pitched to me some and then we finally settled on me hitting grounders to him so he could practice fielding. He was tired when we finished and actually said that I wore him out! It's usually the other way around...he wears me out long before his energy runs out.