Lost & Found

Over the weekend, Abby had the softball tournament in San Mateo. In the 8U division, Foster City sent a team "Force" to participate. At this age group, even though no elimination rules, the competition is still intense. For a team that was put together 10 days before the tournament, our result were W1 L3. Two of the lost games were quite close.

Over all I think they did well and the most important, they the girls had a lot of fun, probably a bit too much fun. The girls did a lot of cheering, dancing and playing in the dugout. I cannot help wonder whether they used most of their energy in the dugout instead of on the field.

Anyway, we had a game (game 3) at 5:00pm Saturday evening. There was another game within 10 minutes after our game ended. So, we had to clean up the area and leave after the game. I helped the girls pack and make sure they got all their equipments.

Sunday morning around 9:00am, when we were about to head to our last game, I popped the trunk to put Abby's gear in and realized something was missing. I stood there thinking and suddenly, I realized that I left my camera bags and gears in the field the evening before. It has all my photography gears in it with estimated value over $5K. My face wouldn't look too good because I could see that Abby got worried and thought she did something wrong. Poor thing.

I rushed to the field and found the tournament staffs, asked them where the lost & found was. They asked me what I was looking for. I told them that I forgot my camera bag the day before. They asked me to describe it. I gave them a detail description of the bag. They smiled and told me, "the lost & found is across the street next to the big field. by the way you have a good camera."

I was really surprised that it didn't get lost. It gives me hope for the humanity though. :)