Favorite Places

HOME AWAY FROM HOME: Thought we're eyeballs deep in a big move, we took time out this evening to go to the old ball game. We've only been to two or three other games so far this season, a big deficit for us. 

We picked CJ up from his programming class about 4:20 at Seattle Center and then took darn near an hour to get to the stadium. Traffic was terrible. We went backward to go forward at one point. 

We finally made it, happily in time to get Mariners' snow globes. The first 20,000 fans got a globe. Half of them were Kingdomes, half were Safeco Field. Though we went to different people/boxes to procure ours, we all wound up with Kingdomes. 

While we love us some Kingdome, we would rather have half and half, so CJ and Christian went to swap a couple of Kingdomes at a designated swap spot in the stadium. In the end, we got the globes we wanted. They're super pretty.  :)

The Mariners have been on quite a streak. A LOSING streak that is. Before tonight, they'd dropped the last 8 games at home. Ouch.

Fortunately, tonight they turned that around and posted a strong win. We especially loved Nelson Cruz's 3-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning.

We started the evening down in the bull pen, and watched most of the game from 'on high' - the top row on the west side of the stadium.

About the seventh inning, we made our way down to the 100 level, behind home plate (photo leading this post).

All in all, it was a lovely night at the ballpark!

REWIND: Though this week has been all about packing and moving, moving and packing, we have tried to make some time for fun.

On Wednesday, when picking CJ up from class at Seattle Center, we went straight to the International Fountain. It is, for sure, one of our favorite spots in the city on a hot day.

The kids splashed around for nearly an hour. In the photo above, the fountain's jets were dramatically choreographed to Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. It was marvelous!