Take Me Out to the Ball game!

 

 

Thanks to the generosity of our friends, Jackie and Eric Peacock (and their little one Chloe), we were able to not only attend a game in the Inaugural season for the Reno Aces but also watch a great game! Thunder storms loomed in the distance as we arrived to the game at the start of the second inning (darn road construction) but it ended up being perfect timing as a foul ball rolled to our feet outside the stadium.
We quickly found our seats - wait, let me rephrase, our INCREDIBLE seats! With the four middle seats in the second and third rows directly behind home plate, we were right in the action. In fact, for one of the first times I can remember, my dad didn't need his binoculars to follow the game.

After just two more innings, rain drops began to fall here and there. We took the opportunity to get up, check out the park, and find some food. Let's just say our timing was again perfect. Within minutes, the scattered raindrops became an all-out down pour! People who had thought to stay in their seats and wait out the shower quickly joined us in the covered area looking like they had all been tossed into a swimming pool. The rain continued to fall for a good thirty minutes creating a fifty-six minute rain delay. After we had successfully fed cheese pizza to the kids and obtain food for the adults, we returned to our seats only to find that one of the other fans in our row had dried the seats for us - how kind! Another short shower sprinkled us for a couple of minutes later on but it was hardly worth running for cover.

Between innings or during pitching changes we enjoyed the music and watching the scoreboard as it scanned the crowd. Sam was a main target for the camera man behind us, appearing on the big screen several times! The kids loved the entire game and were hard to pull away when their bedtime was imminent. We did stay through the seventh inning stretch to sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" then watched a seven run streak by the Aces in the bottom of the seventh inning to lead them to their 10-9 victory over the Colorado Springs Sky Sox.