The Really Tall Kid

*Day 70*
Bear with me, because to tell the story of this picture, I first have to do a backstory. I'll try not drag it out.

My mom worked at Westridge Academy. This is a private school for troubled boys. Every year they do a fundraiser called the Scarecrow Festival. It's a big carnival with games, food, rides, facepainting. It's always around Halloween, so the boys form the school and other people will dress up. My mom used to take her grandkids even before she taught at the school. After my mom started working there, we always went to see my mom (and because she would get us tickets).

When Logan was three, I took him. We were talking to my mom when a group of boys came up. They had a quartet and were walking around singing to people. My mom knew the boys so she called them over to sing to us. Then she introduced them to us. One of these boys was walking on stilts. In future years, we would see a boy walking on stilts at the Festival. I didn't realize what impact this had on Logan until I started hearing him telling his friends that his grandma knew a really tall kid. At first I didn't know what he was talking about. Then one day, he trying to beat everyone elses story and he was telling about the really tall kid his grandma knew. Finally, I realized that really tall kid his grandma knew was the kid on stilts. Apparently he didn't realize the kid was on stilts. He just thought he was really tall.

A couple of years ago we were at the Scarecrow Festival with my family. (We didn't go last year because my mom got laid off.) I was with Logan and he saw this "kid" walking toward us. He says, "There's that kid grandma knows." (Meaning the really tall kid.) I looked at who he was looking at, and I said, "No, that's just Shawn Bradley." Shawn Bradley is a 7' 6" basketball player. He played in the NBA. At the time he was working for Westridge Academy. He was so tall that Logan thought he was the kid on stilts! They might have been the same size. We didn't see the kid on stilts that year. I think he graduated. They just hired Shawn Bradley to take his place at the Scarecrow Festival.


I mentioned that I would like to see exactly how much taller he was then me. So, my mom introduced us and my sister made me get my picture taken with him. He's really tall.

I'm just going to mention, that this wouldn't be my number one choice in basketball players to meet. I was never a Shawn Bradley fan. But, it is impressive to stand next to him to be able to appreciate how big some of these payers are. Besides, it's a pretty good blog story.