Baseball Day

Some friends have a suite at the baseball stadium and invited us to use it for a recent home game.  I'm not normally terribly interested in baseball, but I have been to a few games previously.  Randy and I went with some neighbors.

First thing is when you have tickets to a suite in the stadium, you also get a VIP parking pass to park next to the stadium instead of walking thirteen blocks like everyone else.  Already I knew this would be a really cool experience.  

When we got inside and upstairs we found our room and walked in. 

 Inside were bowls of food and a small refrigerator with drinks.  A TV hung on the wall, and there was a counter to sit at and look through the windows at the field below.  There was also a telephone on the counter with an info card telling us to pick up that phone if we needed anything.  Next to the windows was a glass door leading to a balcony with about twenty seats.

 We sat outside and watched the game on a beautiful day.  Even if you don't care much about baseball, I could hardly think of a more relaxing thing than sitting up there listening to the game.

Somewhere around the fourth inning a woman came out and told us she had brought us some food and left it in the room.  This day just kept getting better and better.  Inside we found a huge tray of hamburgers, another of hot dogs, and plates of all the condiments you would want.

Randy and his friend had low interest in the game and once the food came, they stayed in the room eating and talking for the rest of the game.

I continued to sit outside and watch the game.  One of the things I liked about this field was the old time feel to the score board.  There was a guy sitting in there behind one of the zeros, the one that was half taken out. He was watching the game and updating the score board by hand as it happened.

Near the end of the game we went back into the room to find a large tray of cookies.  Thankfully I was able to get one before the kids ate them all.

Everything about the game and being in that suite made for a great day.  The suite was a new experience for me and was something great.

On top of that, I was reminded about the special sights, sounds, and smells of a baseball game.  Special even if you aren't normally a big fan of baseball.