A "Home Run" of a Weekend!

You wouldn't believe how exciting this weekend has been for me!

For starters, yesterday, my brother, Jack, and I went over to my aunt Patti's house to visit with her, and my Uncle Ted, who, as you know, was spending the weekend here from Colorado. Ted was helping Patti build a railing for her stairs, or something, and my dad was getting "crap" off of Patti's computer. Basically, a Help-Patti-Out-Day. That left jack and I to find something to do.
We did bring a football along with us, but that didn't last long, because after about ten minutes of playing catch, it started to rain (just as it continued to do all of yesterday). Luckily, we had a plan B; Patti had about a thousand old baseball cards in her basement, leftover from a collection my late Uncle Walter had, and we were always welcome to go down there and take as many cards as we wanted.
So, Jack and I spent a good thirty minutes, to an hour down there, looking at pictures of baseball players we had never heard of, laughing at their weird names, or bad pictures, always keeping an eye out for a familiar name. We did end up finding a few old Roger Clemens cards, and some Sammy Sosa's, and Cal Ripken's (Jr.'s), things like that.
But then, Jack happened to find a Ted Williams card (for those of you who aren't baseball fanatics, like myself, Ted Williams was a legend on the Red Sox, and is currently a Hall-of-Famer. He is the last player to ever have a batting average of over .400 in a single season [which is extremely good]))! I was quite jealous, but tried not to let that show (gotta keep my cool). So, I decided I wouldn't stop searching, until I found someone just as good as Ted Williams. I mean, how hard could it be? There were at least a thousand or so cards down there. There's gotta be at five more legends in this collection.
Boy was I right.
About twenty-five minutes after Jack found that card, I started to find a ton of awesome cards; I found two Jim Rice's (Red Sox, Hall-of-Famer), a bunch of Wade Bogg's (another Red Sox Hall-of-Famer), a few Carlton Fisk's (ditto), and (you're not going to belive this) two- count 'em, two- Ted Williams cards! And if you can belive that, you definitely won't believe this;
I found a Babe Ruth card! (if I have to tell you who he is, I think I'm going to pass out)
Unbelievable, right?

 

That's not actually my card, but it's a picture of the same one I have. It's actually a picture of Babe Ruth shaking hands with Ted Williams, so that technically means I now have two and a half Ted Williams cards! I was so excited when I found it, I was shaking with excitement for ten minutes!

So, after that excitement, we all headed to a cookout at my Uncle John's house. I stuffed my thirteen-year-old stomach with two hot dogs, a cheeseburger, some chips, some cake (to celebrate Ted's belated birthday), a brownie, and a strawberry shortcake!

Don't judge me, I'm a growing teenager.

As you can see, it's been a busy weekend, full of surprises, and it's only going to get better! According to Jack, and Ted, we're all going bowling, and mini-golfing today! Could this weekend get any better?

Too bad it ends tomorrow.

Yours in awesomeness,

~Ry.