Staycation Day 1 – WaterPark and Ball Game
Today starts the wonderful three-day July 4th weekend that we're turning into a nice 4-day weekend that is going to be our "Staycation" for the Summer of 2009. The kids are busy, Liza is busy, and there isn't a lot of time to take a big week-long vacation, so we're doing things around the area and having a lot of fun.
Today was the Water Park and a great Kane Count Cougars ball game. It was a decent time at the water park - a little chilly for my tastes, but the kids liked it plenty. Liza didn't get a toe in the water all day.
The Cougars played the Peoria Chiefs - the AAA Farm Team for the Cubs. Turned out that A. Ramirez was playing that night and the KCC had a 9-year high attendance of over 14,000! It was a good game, the Chiefs won, but it was the three errors on the Cougars that really was the reason.
After the game, they had a great fireworks display there. It was directly overhead. We lay back in the grass and looked up at the fireworks. It was amazing. We felt like we could reach out and touch them. Fantastic night.