Travels of a Lost Texan: Take Me Out to the Ball Game

This weekend John organized an outing for the college group to watch the Nationals take on the Cleveland Indians. It was an eventful game filled with lots of fun and merriment. But the best part was about a couple of months ago or so a high school friend of mine Ryan Langerhans was traded from the Braves to the Washington Nationals! He and his wife and I all went to school together from Middle school on and were in the same youth group. So it was fun to have a hometown face in the city. it is also fun because I have yet to go to a game here in the city so this was the first time I was able to see him play not on our high school field.

But the students totally thought it was the coolest thing since they had a random personal connection so one of the players. We made signs and had a “Langerhans’ Fans” section of our very own. Sadly Ryan did not start on Saturday as they were checking out some guy from the minors but that did not stop us from trying to get our section to chant to get Ryan on the field and they all went crazy when he came in to pinch hit. Shari sent me a text message and said that she could see us from the Friends and Family box… which I thought was way fun since we were totally in the nose bleed section! Yeah we have team spirit. Sadly though the Nats lost in the 9th inning by one run. And then we endured one of the longest metro rides in my time in DC. Two trains broke down on our ride home and already over crowded trains had to unload and load onto other over crowded trains. It was not comfortable and it was brutal to have to watch all the students. I know they are college students but still you have 18 students with you, you want them to be together in a line and all in eye shot… I was stressed to say the least.

Me, John, Bethany, Ryan and James