Blog Number 76

Greetings and welcome to today's random thought.

Well today was supposed to be the son's first soccer game.  I will admit freely that I really have no desire to watch 8 year olds play soccer.  I don't even have a desire to see professional soccer players play soccer but he seemed excited so I tried to be (OK, faithful reader, I know you are saying to yourself, "You are willing to sit through an all day chess tournament, wouldn't this be both shorter and more exciting?"  You are probably right).  The son is really into weather right now (a topic for another blog) and he was concerned that his game might be cancelled because of rain.  The soccer league he is in is run by our church so that is where the soccer field is.  It was not raining that much when we headed off to the soccer field but by the time we got there it was obvious that no game was going to be played today.  The game was supposed to start at 10:30 and the rain lasted about an hour.  By noon, the sun had come out and it was a gorgeous day (although it was a little windy).

Tonight there was an air show (also at our church).  Evidently there is an airstrip nearby and one of the guys there has a biplane and he does the standard tricks.  He offered to do a show so about 200 or so of us showed up to be impressed.  There were also 2 large bounce houses set up for the kids.  By the time the show started at 7:30, it was about 75 degrees (perfect weather for an airshow really).  The pilot's tricks lasted about 15 minutes and were very impressive.  All this was lost on the kids though since the bounce houses won in the contest for their attention.  They stayed in there bouncing around until the workers were ready to take them down.

So the day started in disappointment at the church for all of us and ended with excitement there for all of us.  We will head back there tomorrow of course for regular Sunday morning service.  I have a feeling though that the kids will want to have the bounce houses blown back up for Sunday school.

Thanks for reading my Random Thoughts.

Jon