All Caught Up

Monday was brutal. The day dragged on like most Monday's do.  At Ben's office, it was not even an easy day to use the restroom.

(Follow up on this emergency -  While specifics are only being provided by building management on a need to know basis, the bathroom now has one less toilet.)

However, on Kelly's walk home, she ran into a 9/11 remembrance ceremony on the back steps of the Capitol. The Senate and House of Representatives came together in a similar to how they did on 9/11/01 to have a tribute to all the victims. They even sang "God Bless America" like they did 10 years ago.

Kelly had a few hearings this week.  Below you can see Kelly hard at work.

(Kelly is on the far right.)

The remainder of the week was uneventful and continued to work for the weekend. Friday night was our softball team pep rally for the playoffs at Nellie's Sports Bar on U street. We foolishly attempted to drive up to U street and was once again was reminded that we weren't in Jefferson City anymore. With NO parking for what was seemingly miles, Ben decided to just run and get our new fancy playoff uniforms and head back home. 

(Ryan (above) was responsible for our sponsorship and new uniforms.  We were just glad that jean shorts are optional.)

Saturday was the playoffs for our softball league. The culmination of 15 weeks of tough games and an entire summer of Ben's analysis of team strategy. The temperature had dropped into the mid 60's with some light rain. Kelly had her game face on and was ready to lead the team to the 2nd round.

Things started off well. With two runners on, Ben hit a bases clearing triple. Kelly followed his at bat with a opposite field single, scoring Ben from third. We posted 5 runs in the first inning and felt good about our chances. We traded runs with the "Great Lakers" for the next few innings and took a 3 run lead into the top of the 7th. After a couple base hits and a triple we had a one run lead with 2 outs. With bases loaded and two outs, we walked the next batter. To make things worse, in this league if you walk a male batter and a female is on deck, the male batter gets to go to second and the female on deck can go to first. The Great Lakers scored two runs on the walk and took a two run lead into the bottom of the 7th. Unfortunately, we were unable to rally and went in order to finish the game and our season.

(This picture was taking before our collective souls were crushed.  Luckily there is next year.)

While we were devastated for the entire walk to our car, we managed to recover in time to salvage a great Saturday. We watched some college football and relaxed before heading to Maryland for some Target/Marshalls/JC Penny shopping. We took it easy Saturday night and did some cooking for Sunday.


Sunday was very relaxing. We took the dogs for a walk on a very crisp morning in D.C. We watched a couple episodes of our netflix show of the moment, "Sons of Anarchy". Ben is much fonder of the show than Kelly, but it gives her the latitude to take care of other business without worrying about missing anything. After a delicious bowl of healthy/low calorie chili, we headed to Eastern Market for some produce and perusing of the various vendors. We made it back in time to watch a few football games and take care of life chores. Overall, a low key excellent weekend, we look forward to the next one.

(We had to put at least one dog pic on this post.)