Exceedingly Mundane

We had a busy weekend, with a really full, but fun, day on Saturday. We did some stuff around here, most notably, Tim fixed the tiller that has been broken since last summer. He also cut the grass (well, the weeds, we have tons more weeds than grass) and got things cleaned up outside.

We left to go run some errands in the late afternoon, then we headed out to Trustmark Park for the M-Braves game Saturday night. I lobbied to go over to Bass Pro Shop to eat at their new restaurant (Islamadora Fish Company), but Tim wanted the “whole ballpark experience”, so we ate at the game. Hot Dogs, Chili Cheese Fries and a drink.

It was chilly when we got there, and it got colder all night. The wind was blowing constantly out of the north at 10-15mph. After the first couple of innings, I was a block of ice. I ended up borrowing an extra blanket from the very nice family sitting next to us. In addition, we had two groups of coaches/scouts or some kind of organizational people sitting in front of us, and to my right. We had GREAT seats, right behind home plate, and apparently that’s where the guys keeping stats (on Palm Pilots as well as paper), running the pitching radar guns and the big wigs sat. I saw one guy come back with hot chocolate and I asked him which concession stand he found that at (since we hadn’t found any yet, they have different concessions selling different items). He said, “I made it in the clubhouse, would you like me to go get you one?” And I was like, “Oh no, but thank you. I just wondered where you got it”. A couple of innings later, he came and brought me 2 hot chocolates from the clubhouse, which I thought was so nice of him. I think these were the guys from the other team (Huntsville Stars), but he was so thoughtful. I kept one for me and Tim and shared the other with the lady who had loaned me a blanket. Like I told the guy, he made our whole row happy! 🙂

Anyway, we had great seats, and a great time. Those games are so much fun! There’s a lot going on, including a great mascot (Reggie), and fun stuff at every half inning. This was only the third home game and they had lost the first two games, and they didn’t start out well. But, then they had a big rally in the bottom of the 5th inning, and we were clapping, yelling and screaming, and waving our red tomahawks they gave us when we walked in (free from Cellular South). It was a blast! We left a little early (top of the 8th inning, had to stay for the 7th inning stretch!), and it was still 5-2. We went to the new Starbucks near the stadium in Pearl, and got drinks since we were both so cold. Grande dark roast for Tim, and Tall NonFat Decaf Vanilla Latte for me. Mmmm, good. Tim and I had a great time and hope to go back a bunch more this season.

Since this was one of the first home games, they were giving out big magnets with the entire schedule on them, so I got one and put it on the fridge. We know when all the home games are now, so everyone come and go to a game with us! They’re fun 🙂

Here’s Tim at the game, holding his tomahawk… more pictures on the extended page:

Here’s a picture I took from my seat, no zoom. See what great seats we had! Right behind home plate. The guys in front of us and to the right were admin or scouts. They were doing stats, making notes on a Palm Pilot and tracking the pitchers with radar guns:

I took several shots of the action, now that I have a good zoom!

And several of the mascot, he was a hoot and had us laughing all the time. During this particular half inning, he was dancing around with a feather boa, messing with the umpire. He finally went up and grabbed the umpire in a big hug, and at the end, he grabbed his butt!

And one of the scoreboard, after the big rally… it says 57 degrees, but Tim and I are POSITIVE it was colder than that. It felt like 47 out there, with a wind chill in the 30’s 😯