Softball Season?

I know what you must be thinking...softball in Baghdad? I was thinking the same thing. We ordered t-shirts online and had our families mail our gloves to us. We have a dusty old field that floods out when it rains, so we have not had a lot of practices. Actually, we have only had one practice and we started a tournament yesterday. We played our first game last night at 4:30pm and gave the other team a run for their money, but lost by a couple of runs. This morning on Mother's Day we played another game at 8:00 am. This time, we lost really bad - by 20 runs. Hard to believe isn't it? Well, the important things is that we were all laughing and having fun. Wait, maybe the laughing was from the other team. That is okay, we did great! One thing that I asked someone today was - where else could you go to play softball and have people showing up carrying their weapons and in up-armored vehicles?

I have included some pictures of the game. To all the moms out there, have a happy Mother's Day!

The Baghdad Barristers!

Here I am swinging like I am trying to hit it out of the park, it was a line drive to 3d, which was caught...



Picture of the dugout and the tactical vehicle in the background.