J and A at the K

 Mom and Ron had tickets to the Royals game today that they couldn't use.  The offered them to me and Andrew to go to the game.  We're two Royals fans who love going to games at the K, but who are really busy and hardly ever get the opportunity, so we were really grateful to have the opportunity.

Andrew and I are great at making up games out of nothing.  We decided to use our tailgating time to do just that.  So we brought a bunch of different things with us, knowing we could make something up on the fly.  We had beanbags, frisbees, cardboard boxes, wastebaskets, flower pots, etc.  Basically we just wanted some things to throw, and a wide variety of things to throw them into.  After parking, we quickly devised a game using all of the supplies we had.  It was a point-based tossing game, with different points for different targets based on difficulty based on size, shape, and distance.  We had so much fun doing it, that we actually spent the first couple innings of the game continuing to play before making our way into the game.

The weather was great, and we had some good food, including the Cheesy Corn Brisket-Acho that I had which was great.  Kris Medlen did not have a good night, and the Royals ended up losing to the Indians, unfortunately.  But they already have the division wrapped up, so now they are just battling the Blue Jays for home field advantage in the playoffs, which after tonight's loss, it's not looking good for the Royals to secure that, but it's still possible.

After the game, we went back to Andrew's house, and we modified our game and created new variations, include a HORSE-based one, which works in almost any situation.  The driveway looked either like the remants of a pretty great party, or like a place that someone was storing their useless trash, but it worked great for us, and everything had a purpose.

We had a really great evening and night.  I feel really blessed to have the step-brothers and brothers-in-law that I do, as I really like every one of them.  Andrew and I get along so well and always have fun together, so it was awesome to be able to spend that much time hanging out together and getting to go to a game to see the team we both love.  We are both super busy, but we resolved to go to at least one Royals game together per season going forward, and to really make an effort to get together more often throughout the year.