{"id":1578,"date":"2009-05-13T22:52:26","date_gmt":"2009-05-14T05:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1578"},"modified":"2009-05-13T22:57:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-14T05:57:13","slug":"wicked-wickets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=1578","title":{"rendered":"Wicked Wickets"},"content":{"rendered":"

J. has been intrigued by the game of cricket for many, many years now. When I was working in London he came over and managed to scavenge an old cricket bat from the Portobello Road Antique market. At the time I was not entirely sure why he was buying an old, beat-up bat. But now it stands beside our bed and I feel a little safer on weeks like this one, when he is traveling out of town, and that bat is within arm’s reach.<\/p>\n

(Note to any potential robbers and thieves – the bat is HEAVY and SOLID, and I’ve been doing the hundred push-up<\/a> challenge, so keep it movin’. Nothing to see at our house.)<\/p>\n

So, where were we? Oh yes. J. And crazy about cricket. So this past weekend he asked us if we would like to go to the Hollywood Ashes<\/a> cricket match.<\/p>\n

Crickets? Yes! I want to see crickets…<\/p>\n

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Who can say no to crickets? Plus there were some celebrities slated to be there. And it was free. So off we went.<\/p>\n

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(This is Addie’s non-stop “skip” caught on camera. For some reason she has been led to believe that she is a great “skipper” and proceeds to skip everywhere we go now. For the record, she is not really all that coordinated in the skipping department, but it is awfully cute.)<\/p>\n

Imagine Em and Ad’s surprise when the “crickets” looked like this…<\/p>\n

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And this…<\/p>\n

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But they quickly discovered the bounce house that was set up, and pretty much just spent the rest of the afternoon jumping their little legs off.<\/p>\n

The bit of match that I got to see was pretty interesting.\u00a0 And it got MUCH more interesting once J. found a quick little fact\/rule sheet so I knew what was actually going on.\u00a0 Plus (and I didn’t take any photos of them!) they had pasties! Mmm….not nearly as good as my Aunty’s – but they were tasty.<\/p>\n

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And Daddy ended up buying a practice set (a new<\/strong> bat, ball, and wickets) and is now planning on teaching his little crickets how to play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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