Amercican Century Championship

It is that time again, the "Amercican Century Championship" in Lake Tahoe, June 10-15, 2007. Though we do not go every year, in fact the last time I went is when steven and I were dating, and now we are married and on our second child - go figure *lol*
I think Steven MAY have gone since then but I am not sure exactly.

Our trip started on Thursday night, I got off early to actually get in bed at a decent time because we were going to leave between 6-7am. Steven called me and asked if I just want to drive up and stay the night , so I said if he could get a room at a decent rate then, why not? He called and the lady said the rooms ( since it was last minute and only had about 3 left, would be 400 ) Umm, no thanks. Steven told her it was just one night and it was going to be his wife and 3 year old son.. he must have done some good flirting or something because he got the room down to 209 which was somewhat reasonable with the Championship going on. So, I got off at 8, got some stuff together and off we went. It was a nice drive, Andrew listened to my ipod some of the way.. Yes, sadly I have a couple play lists I made just for Andrew with the songs I know he loves. To name a few " Come on feel the noise" - by Quiet Riot, "Before he cheats" - Carrie Underwood ( he calls the song "right now" *lol*) and his all time favorite " How to save a life" - The Fray. Interesting taste for a 3 year old I am sure, but he loves music! Kept him busy for a bit and then he started to nod off, it was so cute. Poor guy he was so tired but really wanted to stay awake, he is a bug boy cause he made it. I think he was happy too, We stayed at "Harvey's" Andrew loved the bed, it was huge and to top it off it had a long round browm pillow on it that daddy referred to as a sausage pillow *lol* Andrew eat up and loved it, we did some pillow fighting and playing.. lots of jumping on the bed, Andrew loves to mess up nicely made beds. I was starving because I did not eat dinner, it was not planned to drive down when I left work,so we had to get some room service. Daddy had a salad, I had my french dip and Andrew just had some milk and some of my fries. He was too focused on the bed. I think he was the only one that slept good. I slept horribly, All the while Andrew snoring the WHOLE night. Glad someone got some sleep.

Wake up call was at 7am but oddly enough Steven was up about 6ish and I was already stirring as well. Bad sleep might as well be no sleep. There was nothing I could do to get comfy and franly I think the bed was just too hard. So, up I got about 6:30. Andrew was knocked out, he was not waking up for nothing, I even had some cartoon's on for him thinking he would hear them. So, I got ready and Andrew too when he finally woke up, Daddy went up to find a place to eat some breakfast.. but mama knew better than that, it did not take 30 min to find a place to eat in there.. Daddy pulled some cash and copped a squat at a craps table. He won 100 and then lost , he brought back what he took out, including the surcharge - Good boy LOL. Breakfast was nothing special and then it was off to watch some golf. The weather was nice down there, It was nippy late in the night and in the early morning, but by the time we eat and made it ourside it was beautiful. Now, I am not a golf fan - at all - And most of all I did not want to be walking around tiring myself out. I did way more walking then I wanted to.
Being pregnant makes it 10 times worse. Luckily, a worker saw that Steven left his pregnant wife begind and have me a ride to the 16th hole where we found a nice shady bench to sit at the whole day. It was the perfect spot because we got to see EVERYONE!!

Andrew made out with some goodies, I think they like seeing kids out there, he was being so cute. He kept pretending like he was hitting the golf ball, it really looked like baseball though *lol* he sat and watched everyone hit and then when they were done and we were waiting for the next group he would play.

Andrew's goodies included: A golf ball and tootsie pop from Ben Roethlisberger.


And another golf ball from Mark Rypien.


Mama has to throw in that this guy was funny, Jim McMahon, he golfs bare foot. I thought it was hilarious. He was the only one without shoes.


Okay, back from lunch.. where was I?


Oh yes! So, after all the groups made there way through hole 16 where we sat for the day, we decided it was time to go. This was about 2is I believe, somewhere around there. We pretty much just headed home. We got to laugh at all the people headed up to Tahoe that were stuck in traffic for miles and I mean MILES!!!! Who would drive to an event like that on a Friday knowing it would be bumper to bumper ? LOL hence why we decided it would be better to drive up the night before.
We did not get stuck in much traffic, then again, steven was driving so that should explain it all.

The rest of the night was rather quiet. After the walking and the long drive in the head that is just the way I wanted it. We unpacked some, got changed, relaxed and I think we eneded up turning in between 8 or 9. After all , do not get to do that often =)