Our friend Derek works for Rusty Hardin, who has floor seat season tickets to the Rockets. Because of those premiere season tickets, Rusty gets invited to things like Shane Battier's charity auction. Because Derek works for Rusty, he gets handed the tickets to events like these. Because Cort loves sports so much, he is the first person that Derek (and many of our other friends) think of when they have extra tickets to sports-related events. And that is the long story of how Cort got to Shane Battier's charity auction, where he was in hog heaven meeting and hanging out with Rockets, Astros, and Texans players.
Cort also has a certain weakness for silent auctions. And that is the short story of how he ended up bidding on, and winning, a visit from Rockets rookie Chase Budinger, who came over last month to play a little hoops with our boys. And Derek's two kids, and an extra friend of the boys that we invited over because he loves sports too.
Chase was somewhat quiet but very nice, and the kids had a lot of fun. Almost as much fun as the dads did watching them. He played a little game against the kids - 5 on 1 (on a 6-foot goal) - and also did a few alley oops with them and showed off his dunking skills (with the goal raised back to 10 feet). It was a fun afternoon, and our boys loved it.
Chase posing with the kiddos
De-fense!
Clearing the court!
A shot from Charlie
A shot from Joe
Man to man
Slam dunk!
Alley oop!
Assisted dunk
Helen getting in on the action
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Amy, this is so awesome! You guys have some lucky kids!!!
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