Regional Bball Fiasco

My parents are down visiting for a few days to catch some of Steve's team playing basketball, watch Aubrey for a few days, and just hang out because they don't have the dairy hindering their plans.

On Wednesday, there was a regional basketball game in Fairfield.  Mom, Dad, me, and Aubrey were going to head to the game, which started at 7:00.  It was about an hours drive to the game and none of us had ever been there before, but I looked up the address online and plugged it into the GPS, thinking we would be fine. I didn't want to be late for the game, so we planned to leave at 5:30, giving us an hour and a half before the game would start.  I even made the comment, "I don't want to drive over an hour and miss the game!"

Well, it was dark and rainy and we had a bit of trouble getting to the game on time.  It started with Aubrey throwing a fit in the car so we tried to get the CD player working in the car.  Mom got it going but we didn't know what CD it was so she wanted to eject it, but could NOT find where to do it.  Aubrey was crying, Mom was searching for the eject button, and dad was supposed to be paying attention to where we were going and before we knew it we missed our exit! Now we have three yelling adults and a screaming baby - ugh!!

Now we didn't know where we were and it was several miles before we were able to turn around and Dad kept yelling for a real road map which Mom had left at home. Finally we ended up on the other side of Fairfield and we make it to our destination with ten minutes to spare, BUT it wasn't the right place! I had gotten directions accidentally to the Central Office, not the gym! UGH! Now we have NO IDEA where to go. So we saw a person on the parking lot and tried to get directions from them....

Meanwhile I called Steve's mom and tried to get directions from her; still not successful.  Finally we stopped a man on the side of the road and asked him and we weren't that far off, but still - FRUSTRATING!

FINALLY we get to the game and it had already started and had been playing for about 3 minutes already and the score was 5-5. Dad dropped us off and we quick paid and sat down til a time-out. Then I had to go change Aubrey's diaper and we could not find the bathroom in the dungeon so we just did it in a random hallway when some people followed us and wondered what we were doing, but quickly left us alone when they saw we were changing a diaper!

Meanwhile, Dad had come in on the other side and found Kaisands to sit by and they still didn't see us on the other side. Finally during halftime we were all sitting together (right behind the Coach). In the end, Oskaloosa ended up winning by about 12 so it was a good game, but we ALL would have been mad if they lost and it was their last game.  Now we travel to Benton on Saturday, a 2 hour drive, to play the number one team in the state in our calss...might be our last game of the year :)  BUT we plan to leave VERY EARLY so we do NOT get lost!