We flew out of Tulsa Thursday, June 3 to Seattle, WA via Phoenix.
Here we are in the Phoenix airport - Ryan wanted to make sure to include the sports news of the day, the horrible call by the baseball umpire. It was good to see what good sports the umpire and the pitcher were though. All's well that ends well I think!
Phoenix was so dry looking! Made it very easy to find the golf courses.
Ryan got to see the Grand Canyon for the first time! Unfortunately he was up in an exit row and I was in the last row of the plane at a window so I couldn't share it with him. (I'm not a fan of Southwest's seating methods.)
So this is straight out of the camera...
This is color adjusted - a little too much but I think it shows the depth better eh?
Passing Mt. Rainier
Seattle from the air
Carrie met us at our gate! Then we lugged our bags onto the tram for a ride into downtown.
The Seahawks stadium next to Safeco field where we'd be at the Mariners game later that night.
We walked by the Space Needle on our way to Holiday Inn Express. We must have looked funny pulling our luggage and running across streets.
Luggage left behind - we took a walk to Pike's Place Market on our way to the baseball stadium.
Ryan said if we lived in Seattle he'd go buy me flowers at this market. They had gorgeous bouquets of mixed flowers for only $10-15!
Lots of seafood
We wanted to see them yelling and throwing fish but I think it was too late in the day.
Seattle has lots of hilly roads
Outside Safeco field
Great seats!!! Ryan stopped on the way to pick up a Ken Griffey, Jr. T-shirt. Ryan and Ryan were sad that this was the day after his retirement. They were hoping to see him play.
Beautiful ballpark
Ryan's fantasy pitcher - Pravano - warming up.
Most of the gang is here! All of the pictures with Witas are on Carrie's camera.
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Look at this link - you can spot us in the left hand corner during the film from Jose Lopez's homerun at about 45 seconds through the video. Ryan is stretching his arm out pointing at it. You can see Carrie a little bit in a baseball cap and gray shirt when she stands up.
The famous garlic fries - great when you eat them but they don't settle on your stomach too well.
Yum!
It began to rain a little so they closed the roof. How neat! Then it was back to the hotel for one last e-mail check and then to bed before our cruise departure!
Jason Heyward up to bat
Great seats
Derek Lee (my fantasy player) makes the play at first
Santana gives up a home run to Brian McCann
The coke bottle is different and its marquee lights up with different messages. And of course, now we have a Chik-fil-A cow too.
It was Nascar night - boy were they loud
*insert the trademark song here
Out with the old...
... and in with the new, with a butt slap for good measure. Way to go Bobby.
The rally cap didn't work
Longtime friends are the best kind!
Phoenix was so dry looking! Made it very easy to find the golf courses.
Ryan got to see the Grand Canyon for the first time! Unfortunately he was up in an exit row and I was in the last row of the plane at a window so I couldn't share it with him. (I'm not a fan of Southwest's seating methods.)
So this is straight out of the camera...
This is color adjusted - a little too much but I think it shows the depth better eh?
Passing Mt. Rainier
Seattle from the air
Carrie met us at our gate! Then we lugged our bags onto the tram for a ride into downtown.
The Seahawks stadium next to Safeco field where we'd be at the Mariners game later that night.
We walked by the Space Needle on our way to Holiday Inn Express. We must have looked funny pulling our luggage and running across streets.
Luggage left behind - we took a walk to Pike's Place Market on our way to the baseball stadium.
Ryan said if we lived in Seattle he'd go buy me flowers at this market. They had gorgeous bouquets of mixed flowers for only $10-15!
Lots of seafood
We wanted to see them yelling and throwing fish but I think it was too late in the day.
Seattle has lots of hilly roads
Outside Safeco field
Great seats!!! Ryan stopped on the way to pick up a Ken Griffey, Jr. T-shirt. Ryan and Ryan were sad that this was the day after his retirement. They were hoping to see him play.
Beautiful ballpark
Ryan's fantasy pitcher - Pravano - warming up.
Most of the gang is here! All of the pictures with Witas are on Carrie's camera.
The famous garlic fries - great when you eat them but they don't settle on your stomach too well.
Yum!
It began to rain a little so they closed the roof. How neat! Then it was back to the hotel for one last e-mail check and then to bed before our cruise departure!
Ready for the first pitch.
View from our seats
My fantasy player Ian Stewart up to bat. I love the Rockies scoreboard! Lots of great information. Their batting averages change each at bat and eventually it even shows what each batter did in previous innings of the game.
Since I didn't have any other baseball gear (besides my NW Arkansas Naturals shirt and who wants to be from Arkansas in Denver) - I wore my Red Sox shirt and hat. I didn't think about the fact that the Sox put the Rockies out of the playoffs in 2007. I got a couple of comments like... "Why would you wear Red Sox stuff to a Rockies game?" and "Hey, lets kick this Red Sox fan out of here!" but there were also several closeted Sox fans who gave me the "Go Sox!" fist pump, albeit, quietly.
Early in the game - bases loaded for the Rockies
and two runs score!
The outfield fountains and the bullpens are really pretty.
(Click to enlarge)
7th inning stretch
Game over - Rockies win!
Time to go home...
And Monday morning it was time for me to fly home.
