more baseball!

Last Sunday, we went to the 2009 AAA national champions Durham Bulls game. We had SO much fun! This was the first sporting event where Thalia had her own seat, and she LOVED it!

we got a snowcone right away, among other sweets. we ate so much sweet stuff, chris and i felt sick on monday!

you'll notice some clouds in this picture...more on that to come. mostly it was really warm and sunny, but there was some bad weather in the forecast.

thalia had a lot of fun playing with daddy...until this: now, you'll notice the clouds getting darker here. chris went and got a swedish fish slush. :o( it definitely tasted like you were drinking swedish fish - it was just WAY too intense!

this is how intense the slush was...our tongues were bright red. again, let me draw your attention to the even darker clouds. about this time, i am telling chris that i think we should leave. he, of course, wants to tough it out. about 30 seconds after the picture of our tongues was taken, this is what happened:

thunder, lightning, sideways rain! it was a crazy storm. everyone tried to cram under this small covered area, but with the rain coming in sideways, it was useless. the rain was SO cold. so we went up towards the suites, and an usher was letting people with kids go into a suite that was empty. so we watched the storm go through from a suite. when the rain started to die down, i told chris i thought we should head back to the car. at this point, chris asked thalia if she wanted to go home or watch more baseball. of course, thalia's response was "more baseball!"

we got to watch the grounds crew clean up. you can see in this picture that thalia's hair is soaked! after about an hour and a half, the game started. so many people had gone home that we got to sit right behind home plate in the first row! it was great. as we were walking out, we saw Wool E. the bull, so we set the camera on the bench arm, and timed this picture of ourselves. not bad huh?

what an adventure! we had a lot of fun, and thalia is now a baseball fan. chris got her a pink foam finger that she thinks is the coolest thing ever. i am thinking we'll be spending many more afternoons at the DBAP.

much love and more sleep,

c, c, and t