On to Williamsport

Chuck and I have begun to notice some hints of fall in the last week or two.  As we were leaving Gram and Pap's Fort Bellefonte on Wednesday morning, a Bradford Pear tree had already was a beautiful mixture of red, green and yellow.

We had a relative short drive today between Bellefonte and New Columbia, PA, where the KOA we are staying at over the next 5 nights is located with most of that being on I-80 so I decided to work on the blog rather than look ahead to see if the GPS knew where we going.  Because of this, the GPS took us about 15 miles out of the way plus we encountered a detour.  Note to self:  always check the campground's directions and don't rely on the GPS!

Oh well!  We saw some more of Pennsylvania's beautiful farms...

...and drove through another corn maze.  :)

We arrived at the campground around 10:45.  Just as we were backing into our site, Ken and Bonnie arrived!  After spending a few minutes exchanging hugs, we got our coaches backed into our sites and leveled which took several blocks for both of us.

We enjoyed getting caught up on each others' families and lives and then around 3 pm, we drove to the Little League World Series Complex.  The Pennsylvania team is still in the series and is undefeated so we expected it to be crowded.  A friend of Ken and Bonnie's loaned them some special chairs for sitting on the hill.  Chuck the Chairhead led the way to the stadium.  :)

The banks were already getting crowded.  We thought we had found a good spot at the top of the lower bank but it was too level.  These chairs have had the back legs cut short and are made for sitting on a steep incline.  They don't work to well on a flat surface as Chuck found out!  :)

We continued walking around the bank and found a good spot behind the right outfield.

Chuck, this is how you are supposed to sit in the chairs.

The way the banks are designed are actually great.  We had a perfect view of the field.  And the chairs are much more comfortable to sit on than sitting on the ground on a blanket.

The first game was between Venezuela and Japan.  Another good game plus we had fun watching all the kids sliding down the upper bank.

Japan emerged the victor beating Venezuela 5 to 4 in extra innings,

Before the US game began, we walked down to the concessions.  Chuck made friends with some of the characters here to entertain the "kids."

This one looks kind of scary!  It's a Honda car vac.  What?????

ESPN was broadcasting from outside the stadium between games and everyone was trying to get on TV.  Reminded us of College Game Day!

After eating some tasty hot dogs and buying a bag of kettle corn, we walked back up to our seats.  A perfect night for a ball game!  Pennsylvania was playing the Texas team and both teams were undefeated at this point.

By this time the lower bank was so full it looked like a regular stadium filled with seats.

It was a great game and both teams have very talented players.

But the home team won!  Pennyslvania beat Texas 3 to 0 in an exciting game with very good pitchers that was much closer than the score implies.

Wow!  What a great game!  Pennsylvania goes on to play for the US title on Saturday.  It took a while for us to not just walk back to the car with the crowds but also to get out of the parking lot once we left.  We didn't get back home until nearly midnight so no card-playing tonight.  But what a fun, fun day we have had!