Will Chatham

We just got back from a 5 day week­end in Louisville. Gray had a ball with my par­ents, run­ning around their car­peted house like a mad­man, and they seemed to have had an equally sized ball with him. We took an after­noon and went to the zoo, where Gray was more inter­ested in the melt­ing snow and pud­dles of water than the ani­mals, but you can’t blame a 19 month old for that.

The high­light of the trip for me also turned out to be the low­light. My dad pulled some strings and found some­one with an extra ticket to the UofL bas­ket­ball game on Thurs­day night. After scour­ing eBay for three days with no luck find­ing tick­ets, I was elated to have a chance to go to the game.

Now, you might think that the low­light was because the Car­di­nals lost, but they didn’t. The low­light was because when I got to the park­ing lot at Free­dom Hall, the ticket was no longer in my pocket. I never found it. It fell out some­where between where Ali­cia and I ate din­ner, got cof­fee, and the car. I even went back and looked. So close was I, and yet, so far.

I got to see my buddy Simon, whom I have known since I was 4, which was good. Ali­cia and I went to the Ken­tucky flea mar­ket, a huge, 1800 booth indoor event at the fair­grounds, and ran into Joey Mudd, which was cool. He and I used to go there a lot, and some­how I had a feel­ing I would see him.

At the flea mar­ket, I picked up some great deals on Magic: The Gath­er­ing cards. Yes, in case you didn’t know, I am that kind of geek too.

I will post a new photo gallery up here soon, with pics from Christ­mas in Char­lotte and New Years in Louisville. For now, just use yer imagination.