4/17/2010 Mariner's game

Saturday
It was a bit cold today but we were all excited a ready for the start of the baseball season. We have season tickets again.

Mircea enjoys her pizza

Casper enjoys the shared lemonade

He is now at an age where he will watch the game and cheer!

I like the pink backpacks the rookie pitchers have to carry

Casper has other things to do to keep himself entertained during the game as well.

Go Mariners!

Our Last Mariners Game of the season

October 3rd Saturday
It has been a good season. We have really enjoyed the Mariners games. Not only that, but we are liking the cohesiveness of the team. We are looking forward to spring training, but will be enjoying football season at the moment. (I am dreading basketball season though--I think they should have baseball go from April to September, Football from October to February, and Basketball should just be March.)
It does sound as if some of our season ticket holder friends in seats near ours, will be purchasing the same seats for next year--so we shall see them again.
This last game for us was REALLY cold! We had a lot of fun.

A full lap!

The gloves Casper is wearing were made by one of our ministers, Lindy. (She is now in China.) They were Casper's first baby gift! They are quite special to us!

Cea and her friend (We will see them next year)

Casper playing on the ground

Casper and I went on a walk on the concourse, as he was too antsy in his seat.

This is funny to me, because he finds a straw wrapper, and he had been chasing one for a while, and had just quit, and now it was starting again. It was really cute to watch him chase a wrapper around the concourse. It was really windy, so he had to move quickly after it!

Our view of the game (Ken Griffey Jr is at bat)
Cea wanted popcorn
We all enjoyed it! Casper really pigged out on it. It was cute

Yum!


Yeah, they won!

A season ticket holder. He got married during the season. They were on the same row as us.

Our seats

Kicking a ball on our way out of the stadium (we skipped the escalators, and took the long way out.)

Casper's transportation to and from the game

Cea's favorite Mariner.
She is hoping for a foam finger for next season.

GO MARINERS!

At 2 Mariners game without Cea

Friday night:
While Cea is spending time with her cousin Joe we went to a Mariners game.
THEY WON!! It was an awesome game!

Casper was so cute.



Yeah! They won! It was so exciting!

A picture of Ichiro hitting the home run that won the game

Ichiro running the bases

It was so nice to be at a game where the Mariners won

Saturday Night: We go to another game, and well Casper was still cute, but the Mariners lost.

The most fun was walking around in the parking lot after the game

Tacoma Rainiers Game with the "Given to Garrulousness" Clan

Sept. 7 Monday Labor Day

Carol calls and asks if we want to go to a Tacoma Rainiers game that afternoon--so instead of cleaning the garage as planned we went to Cheney Stadium. This game would decide if they would head into the playoffs. Cea went bicycling with Papa instead of coming with us, so it was just Bryan, Porsche, and Casper; and then Sean, Carol, Marina, Dakota, and Evelyn.
When we got there the game was delayed a bit due to a wet field--SURPRISE--we had some rain!. So we decided to get some food to chomp on while we waited--plus we had missed lunch. The "food court" at Cheney stadium is small to begin with, but they had even more limited areas open. To top it off they were not expecting this large of a crowd at the game (the biggest crowd that year) and so they were running out of food quickly. Thankfully we were able to get fed, so it all worked out (as for was it good or not--well, we did eat it--but it wasn't as good as their tortilla junction that we prefer, but wasn't open).
The game was a blast. Lots of fun---oh wait, except for the very beginning of the game, a guy jumps out on the field and drops his shorts--it was horrible--shame on him--I was in a conundrum--do I cover Casper's eyes, Marina's eyes (who was next to me) or my own! Thankfully we mostly only saw his backside, and he was arrested. Then around the 8th inning there was another streaker!--the Rainier mascot, Rhubarb the Reindeer. It was hilarious--you will see the video below!
The Rainiers did win, the weather ended up being great, and the kids were awesome as well. Casper fell asleep halfway through after Sean fed him a bunch of french fries and cracker jacks (he also ate half a brat as well). We did a lot of cheering. The crowd is definitely different for these local triple-A games, the heckling is funny, and we are sitting closer to the field, it just feels more like a baseball game. The Mariners games are fun, but a lot fancier. The crowd was rather large and boisterous the whole game which was a lot of fun!

Bryan keeping score and Casper helping
"Score that 5-4-3!" says Casper

Fries and Toys and Casper is happy

Coda and Marina

Yum--Sean keeps them coming and Casper keeps chewing


Casper Cheering--he is just beside himself with excitement

The field from our seats

Jamie Burke warming up the pitcher before the inning starts
(he is my favorite Triple-A player)

Cheese
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Carol and Coda chatting

Sean and Casper Cheering

The Crowd

Marina and Sean


The Streaker!

The cool sky

Casper also eating Cracker Jacks!

Marina holding Casper while he sleeps

Sean gets his turn with Casper too!

Bryan and Porsche

Watching intently--the game is almost over, the cheering has woken Casper up!

Hooray! Good Job Rainiers!

Dakota, Sean, Casper, Marina, Carol and Evelyn

Porsche, Casper and Bryan

Riding the train to the Mariners Game

Saturday July 25th
As you know we have season tickets to the Mariners. Parking and driving is usually a pile. However this day for this game, the Sounder was running (thankfully) and so instead of driving we took the train. (there were 2 events going on that day, one at safeco the other at qwest field. this means bad traffic and no parking spaces available.)
We had gone to the game the night before as well--so we were a bit nervous at how the kids would be as we got home late, and then had to get up early to catch the train.

Mircea was quite excited about the train. . .

Buying the tickets

Getting her OWN ticket

Daddy and Cea by the train tracks

Casper and Mommy

Wow, it is a BIG BLUE TRAIN
Climbing on with all the gear
The train was full of Mariner and Sounder fans

Cea, Mommy, Casper (Notice we are all wearing Mariners shirts)

Cea took this pic of Casper

Daddy and Casper


It is rather noisy, but she is saying that she likes trains they are her favorite, and then she points out some different train tracks.

At the park before going in, Cea was given this banner.
It comes with color crayons, so she can color it during the game.

Cea picked out pizza for her lunch!

Eating peanuts and drinking fresh lemonade (our drink of choice at the games)

Casper likes to play the game "I'll grab a shell from the gross dirty ground and start to put it in my mouth, while you try to stop me!"



Our View

Check out the score--it is rather dismal, but the day was sunny and warm!

Cea loves to play on that bar in the woman's bathroom

Heading home down the escalator

Inside the big statue of a baseball glove
Cea and Daddy

We left out this entrance to head back to the train
Heading home!

Back at the parking Garage

It was a big day and a lot of fun! Now time for a nap!!!!!!!