Bats, Tats & Rats

Last night we headed downtown to check out the College World Series scene and the Missouri River flooding.  Random, I know, but interesting nonetheless (to me).  I think our experience can be summed up pretty handily in three words--Bats, Tats, and Rats.

Bats - We headed over to the new stadium where the College World Series will be played over the next two weeks.  I don't think many fans had arrived yet as I didn't hear too many Southern accents filtering through the air.  To me, CWS = Southern accents.  Does anyone else think a Cajun accent sounds foreign?  Out of all the American English accents out there, I'm convinced these people are NOT from the US.  Don't get me wrong, I'm sure they are some of the nicest, loveliest people around.  I just can't understand a word they are saying.  The "language" they are speaking is unlike any I've ever heard.  Maybe there's a Cajun Rosetta Stone I should check out before I head back to the stadium to catch a game next week.

{P} posing by a tattoo parlor

Tats - My, oh my, ladies.  What is it going to take for you to cover up your tats???  I'm not here to call out people who choose to get a tattoo, but Good Lord, I saw tats on ladies (in public no less) that only their husbands or doctors should know about.  We saw ankle tats, arm tats, booby tats, neck tats, tramp stamp tats--tats of all shapes and colors.  You might ask where we encountered this impromptu tat festival.  We were on the beautiful Bob Kerrey Pedestrian Bridge spanning the Missouri--adjacent to the CWS stadium.  I hardly remember anything about the river because I was so distracted by the tats!  In case you're wondering, the lady tats seemed to out number the gentlemen tats by 5:1--easily.

Rats - Our main reason for heading downtown was to check out the river and flooding that is occurring nearby.  My heart goes out to those who are suffering through this horrible disaster.  While we were checking out the river, I spied with my little eye...a big healthy RAT!  It was marooned on this 10x10 "island" it shared with two bunnies and a beaver/otter/badger animal that was swimming nearby.  We definitely saw a lot of wildlife we probably wouldn't have normally seen because those poor little animals are also being displaced too.