Football, Weddings, and Far Up Lakes.

This weekend went by fast. Here's the highlights. On Friday, I got together with 7 of my guy friends and we played flag football for 3 hours. In 90 degree weather. Understatement of the day: It was hot. But we had a good time. And my team won. Not that that made it a good time, but it did help a little.
Saturday, I played at Elizabeth H.'s wedding. There was supposed to be 2 ensembles and 2 quartets that played at the wedding reception. I was in the first ensemble, and then the older quartet, and besides that, I was kind of heading the whole thing up, getting everyone organized and stuff. The first ensemble went great, at least from what I could hear. I directed about half the time on the younger ensemble, because they were having a hard time staying together. Then a little kids quartet played. They were soooo cute, and totally were good too. By this time most of the people had left, and they were just taking some last minute pictures. So we had to have our pictures taken. End result? The older quartet that I was supposed to play in ended up not playing. Which was sad, because we had spent at least 4 hours together practicing. And we had this totally cool song called Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 by J.S. Bach. But we didn't get to perform it. Oh well.
Right after I got done at the wedding, my dad and I left to go home. We changed clothes, and went with Mr. Purvis and Ethan to a K.C. Royals ball game. My dad is a huge Royals fan, and sometimes he can get free tickets to the home games. This was one of those times. The Royal's won 8 to 7 off a single in the bottom of the 9th. The Devil Rays (the team we were playing) walked 5 Royals in a row in the bottom of the 8th. That really killed them. I drove most of the way home from Kansas City, talking with Mr. Purvis to keep awake.
Sunday afternoon we went up to see my dad's parents. They live in Eldorado Springs. Did you know sleeping makes a long drive go faster? It really works. It's amazing. After visiting my grandparent's, we went to the RA beach on Stockton lake. My word, the lake is up really far. The picnic tables and the charcoal grills are sitting about 5-1o feet out in the water. So that's how far the water is up.