Renegades arrive in Sacramento

"A" 's team, The San Diego Renegades. earned a berth to the Nationals at the highest level in Softball. The ASA (A) Nationals in Sacramento. It was a 500 mile road trip that the girls and I drove On Sunday morning 7/29/07. After stopping by Merced to see my extended family ( see previous post) we made it to Sacramento. The first day was registration for the girls ( "S" likes hanging out with the big girls):
















That night we stuffed gift bags for the first team we would face. We made gift buckets for them that would give them a taste of San Diego ( our home town) ( the first team we faced, as luck would have it, came from San DIego as well):



















There was a parade of teams for opening ceremonies, and a riual of pin trading:






















The girls got a team picture looked something like this:


















and the other version looked like this:




























The girls won there two pool games, "A" got to play in one of them. She hit the ball to left field for an out, and she struck out her second time up. She played right field, and did not see anything hit to her.












Amber got a chance to play in one of the pool games. Here is her hit




















Amber stole 2nd:




















She scored from 2nd!:



















We had time to visit the state capital in the Afternoon:
















As well as Old Sacramento. There was a lot of old vintage buildings, and railroads, and boats moored along the river. it was very nice:








On the way home, we visit Muir woods: