Memorial Day Weekend Tournament - Penn Township, Pennsylvania

We spent our Memorial Day Weekend 2009 at a softball tournament in Monroeville (Penn Township) Pennsylvania. Monroeville is approximately a five hour drive from our house in Oakville. We enjoyed the HOT weather accompained by with sunny, blue skies and the 90 degree temp.

I REALLY like Memorial Day. Along with July 4th ,they are my two favorite holidays. Explanation in a forthcoming post. At our first stop on our drive to Monroeville, PA we picked up a "God Bless the USA" sticker. Hooray for the Red, White and Blue! I wonder how long it will take for it to disappear off the car once we return to Canada?



We arrived at our hotel on Monroeville late Friday night. A-Mac's first game was at 9:30am Saturday morning. Our 20 minute drive from the hotel was an amusement park ride of winding hills and switch-backs. I like the character of the area (about 30 minutes East of Pittsburgh).

The 10 fields were nestled in a valley.





A-Mac played third base the entire tournament and made no errors. She threw out 13 batter's on ground balls.









A-Mac, shown here on third, scored 3 or 4 runs during the tournament.

A-Mac batting in the video above. She needs to step toward the pitcher and not to third.



Below is a list of our most memorable memories from our Memorial Day weekend trip to Monroeville:

1. Lil Lefty with her impersinations and accents in the car (can't even explain but VERY funny)
2. A-Mac batting 6th
3. A-Mac making 6 outs in one game at third base
4. A-Mac playing third for all four games
5. Heat - it was nice to be hot
6. The worst Don Pablo's restaurant ever
7. MacMom beat me into New York on the way home (you would have to see to understand)
8. MacDaddy and his persistence about a Ripstick
9. A nice hotel with two rooms not connected...
10. Bed at 11:30pm, up at 6:30am
11. The "steroid" pitcher on the 16U team - scary
12. The friends we end up meeting through softball. Three hours of conversation with a parent of a teammate of Lil Lefty last year. A 15 minute "hello" between games with a mom of two girls that have played with A-Mac
13. Rolling hills and green of western PA
14. MacDaddy reading on the trip with his glasses and being excited to buy books
15. Two stops at Grove City outlet mall
16. MacDaddy and Lil Lefty doing homework in the hotel room
17. What we do to get kids to softball tournaments :-)
18. Lil Lefty saying she wants to sing the National Anthem at a baseball game
19. Several compliments on my USA Baseball David Wright shirt