Take two - Baseball in the land of extreme weather

The land of extreme weather would be Illinois if you were curious. The Internet has decided to play nice again, so here is the story I was going to share last night.

Over the weekend we decided to go to a Cougar's game on Monday. (That would be the AAA club, Kane County Cougars.) On Sunday when we were ordering tickets, we checked the weather. There was a storm with potential extreme weather (who are we kidding... all storms seem to have extreme weather these days) due to roll through overnight and be gone by mid-morning. We decided to trust the weather report and bought the tickets. 

The anticipated storm did not come through. Instead, we woke up to a house whose windows couldn't be seen through due to the amount of condensation from the very warm and extremely humid weather. L. went out to take care of the birds and came back in saying, "I might as well grow gills." Yes, that humid. Not exactly ideal baseball weather. Some rain came through midday (there were tornadoes further east of us, adding to Illinois' already impressive record) followed by some cooler weather and clear skies. We weren't going to be miserable after all! There was a chance of more severe weather that night, but it wasn't worth cancelling our plans over. 

Off we went. (Pretend these pictures are new, okay?)





It truly was the perfect evening for a baseball game and incredibly expensive beer.



By the 7th inning stretch, though you can see some clouds moving in.

This is J. helping R. do YMCA which happens after Take Me Out to the Ballgame 

By the middle of the 8th, the clouds were heavier and were coming in fast. Plus we were seeing some lightening. It seemed wiser to leave early and hope the Cougars could keep their one run lead without our help. 

It turned out to be a good idea. Here are the clouds of the storm rolling in on our way home.



There was a lot of lightening in them which was fascinating to watch. We got home in time to get all the animals tucked in before the rain started. 

The lightening was pretty impressive. Here are a couple of pictures that Y. took. 



And here is a video I took from the back of the barn.



And for the curious, yes, the Cougars won the game 3-2, so we really didn't miss much. 

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