Even Mule Rides Can’t Keep Us Away from the Red Sox

*Cue the drum roll, jugglers, and acrobats*

After a week of vacation-y bliss, yours truly is back at the helm of Gossip On Sports. We’re defrosting our icy heart just long enough to thank Channel Editor Kori Ellis of The Fantasy Kickoff for filling in for us while we were away.

We apologize for not telling you about the vacay in advance, but we didn’t want autograph hounds and paparazzi to follow us all over Arizona. (It’s OK to laugh. That’s a joke. Truth is, we’re not even sure anyone noticed we were gone).

Anyhow, in the spirit of back-to-school “What I Did This Summer” essays and to prove that this lil’ ol’ blog was never far removed from this bloggerette’s mind, here are a few random sports-related observations from the vacation:

• We took an awesome, everyone-fit-enough-should-do-it 12-mile, 7-hour mule ride into the Grand Canyon. Despite our fatigue as we neared the end, we gave a hearty shout to the hiker chick with a Boston Red Sox cap.
• The Bee bought an Arizona Diamondbacks t-shirt in lieu of the fact that we didn’t *actually* see a snake.
• Happily, we had a lovely, spacious room at the Enchantment Resort. This was important after the Federer-Djokovic semifinal of the U.S. Open, because we were able to jump around like a pre-teen at a Miley Cyrus concert without getting hurt or knocking over furniture.
• A hostess at said resort had a name tag indicating Cooperstown, NY as her hometown, so we told her how much we’d enjoyed a trip there to the Baseball Hall of Fame. That was OK. Then we found out she was a Yankees fan. That’s when The Bee’s wife (that would be me) said, “End of discussion, next subject!” as a joke. But it wasn’t really a joke. We only pretended it was.
• Sadly, yesterday (Sunday) was our travel day, which interfered with our viewing pleasure of the Pats-Chiefs game (though being spared QB Tom Brady’s season-ending injury is a good thing), the Nadal-Murray semifinal of the U.S. Open, and the Williams-Jankovic women’s final. The upside? We get to watch the Federer-Murray final. Unless Fed starts to lose, in which case we’ll just play the Wii.

          (ETA: Roger Federer won! And we only knocked over two things off the end table in the course of our celebratory cartwheels).

It’s good to be back! All that pent-up snark was beginning to take it’s toll on us, you know.