What a weekend

Yesterday we took our oldest daughter to the airport for her trip to South Korea. She's going with a group from her Tae Kwon Do school, led by Master Yun, founder of the school, so she's in good hands and with good company.

But still.

She now is somewhere over the Pacific Ocean. I tried to track her flight using this website but didn't have any luck. However, look at this animation -- amazing, isn't it?! -- and picture her flight heading west out over the Pacific. They're about halfway through their 14 hour flight right now, and according to this Asiana Airlines site, that means they should be into their second movie, having a beverage.

And I love this paragraph from Asiana, touting the virtues of their environmentally friendly coffee:

Asiana Airlines care about the global environment, even in a cup of coffee. Asiana Airlines provides the beautiful coffee in evry sense of the world, as certified by Rainforest Alliance, The coffee was serve is cultivated using enviromentally-friendly farming methods that for go the use agricultural chemicals and insecticides.

Enjoy beauty of the real coffee to the full with beautiful people “Asiana Airlines.”

I was just enjoying beauty of the real coffee myself, courtesy of Folger's, and a beautiful little person was here a few minutes ago. The rest of my beautiful people are still sleeping.

Back to our weekend schedule: yesterday, in addition to taking our oldest daughter to the airport, we also had the two younger kids in baseball tournament games. Today we have, potentially, six hours of Girls' Minis baseball to attend. I was going to say "sit through" but realized that didn't reflect the proper attitude, especially since our Mini Girl is thrilled about this.

But, come on. What brainiac decided that New Berlin Park and Rec really needs a weekend baseball tournament for nine year olds, with three games on a Sunday starting at 10 a.m.? This is not what we signed up for; we've had kids in Park & Rec baseball for more than 10 years and they've never pulled something like this before. With luck, it will be a one-time wonder.

Since our daughter won her first tourney game yesterday afternoon, she plays at 10 a.m. today, and if she wins again, she'll go on to play at noon and 2:00. Of course, the games each last two hours, so how they're going to stick to this every-two-hour schedule is beyond me.

And can you imagine how these nine year olds are going to feel after six hours of baseball? Thank God the temperature is mild today (low 70's), as we could have been hit with 90 degree temps and high humidity. Which would have meant having an ambulance on stand-by for all the heat stroke victims.

This also means we have to go to St. Aloysius (a.k.a. St. Last Chance) for the 7:00 p.m. Mass. It's not our favorite, but I guess it won't kill us. And it beats getting up to go to 7:30 a.m. Mass, after getting home late last night from a graduation party.

Well, in for a dime, in for a dollar. If we have to have this tournament, I really hope my little Mini Girl's team will win the whole thing.

Oops, I just checked: She's no longer a Mini. That was last year. This year she's a Minor. Oh well.