A good decision

We gave my niece the choice last night of going to a short-track car race or a minor league baseball game. She enjoys baseball and racing, so I knew either event would be okay with her.

What I didn't know was that she had never been to a professional baseball game, so that's what she chose.

Our local minor league team was out of town this weekend, so we decided to drive one town over (about 40 minutes away) for a game with a different team. We had some rain on the way to the game, but we figured as often as summer storms move in and out around these parts, that we should be fine by the time the game started.

None of us had been to this particular ball field before, so we just tried to follow everybody else for parking. But by the time we found a spot and got out of the car, we didn't see any other people around. So we followed a sidewalk toward the field.

Little did we know, we had gone completely the wrong way. The reason we didn't see anyone by the time we got out of our car is because they all got out and headed left toward the ticket booth. The ticket booth that was located in the outfield. IN THE OUTFIELD. Who has ever heard of a box office in the outfield?!?

Unfortunately, we didn't figure this out until we were standing at an "employees only" door on the opposite side of the field. We finally found someone who worked at the field and asked him where we could get tickets. He gave us the bad news that we had to walk all the way around the outside of the stadium. 

Oh, did I mention that it was mostly uphill, and it was 90 degrees?

We finally got our tickets, then we had to walk all the way back to the opposite side of the field because our seats were near third base.

We never got rained on, but during the third inning, Jeff told me niece she had made a good choice. He pointed at the rumbling sky and said, "See those nasty-looking clouds and that lightning over there? Well, that's about where the racetrack is, so choosing baseball over racing was a good thing tonight."

Here are a couple of pictures of Jeff and Biscuit at the game and several photos of the ever-changing sky while we were there.