Overnight at the Tin Caps

The Tin Caps are Fort Wayne's local baseball team. Samuel's cub scout group had the opportunity to watch a game and then sleep overnight on the field. Added bonus: it was Star Wars night at the game, so there were people walking around in costumes, Star Wars music being played, trivia questions, etc...

Here are some pictures with Johnny (the team mascot) in Star Wars attire, and with other Star Wars characters:

The game itself didn't get over until 10:00. Then there was a fireworks show. Then the kids could run the bases if they wanted (Samuel did not), and then we were allowed to set up our tents on the field. By this time it was 11:30 at night. Keep in mind that Samuel normally goes to bed at 7:30. Despite being up so far past his bedtime, he did a great job with the tent, basically setting it up all by himself.

After all of the tents were set up, they showed a movie (Monsters University) on the big screen. We made it to almost the end of the movie and fell asleep around 1:00. Everyone had to be up and off the field the next morning at 7:00, so it was a short night (even shorter for some of the kids who were still running around playing tag and screaming at 1:00 am. We were so tired we slept through that noise.)

All in all, I think he had a lot of fun. I can still remember when I was in Girl Scouts how we got to sleep overnight in the Boston Museum of Science, so I hope he has fond memories of this night for a long time!