Just so happens that Charlotte has a AAA baseball team (the Charlotte Knights) who are the AAA team for the Chicago White Sox. Well, as luck would have it the Boston Red Sox AAA team, the Paw Sox, were in town over the weekend as we found out Saturday afternoon, so we decided that was the way to spend Sunday afternoon. We had gone, of course, to Paw Sox games way back when so it was lots of fun to see them down here. As it was when we were on vacation many years ago (when we went to Niagara Falls - my first time!) and the Red Sox were playing in Toronto ~ life gets so "weird" sometimes ~ ya just know you have to just go with it .... baseball is a sport we both love and when you are in an area and "your" team is there, well ya just gotta go for it!
The photo above was our first view of the field here, below both teams warming up.
Below is a photo Rick took looking at the visitor dugout from across the stadium. Great posture of yours truly in the photo huh! WOW girl ~ bad .... Oh well what can I say ... a fat girl being comfortable cheering on her team! My mother, I know would be horrified.
One of the things we've found along the way is how fun these minor league stadiums are - they usually have a "party deck" area where your ticket includes, obviously the game, but food and beer or soda for the length of the game. Unfortunately this stadium didn't have such a deck. The other thing we've found is that the team mascots are very very involved with the fans ....
Above is a photo of Caroline in the purple and Homer in the white. Below, what I'm talking about when I say that the mascots get involved and have fun with the fans. That Homer is such a rascal. He reminded me of Cagey at the Sioux Falls Canaries games ... so darned much fun ... wish my Connor was here with us, then again Connor may have gotten bored after the second inning!
In the photo to the left if you notice the people on the hill on the right hand side of the photo - well that is a picnic sort of area just outside where the kids rides ~ merry go round etc.. Another fun aspect of these smaller stadiums. Although, Rick's research taught us that this stadium ("Knights Stadium") was built with the intention of being a major league stadium somewhere down the line - it was built 20 or so years ago, so I guess perhaps that was great planning but high hopes that didn't come to fruition!
At the end of the game on Sundays children get to "run the bases" - how fun for a child - this child seriously considered running them, but then I remembered ~ dah, Tracey doesn't run, Tracey doesn't even do a fast walk these days! So the next photo is of the kids "running". And next is Caroline congratulating someone as they round third! Ya just gotta love it!
Below the water tower as you approach the stadium - hope you can enlarge the photo.
The adventure for today took us for a ride around this lovely huge Lake Wylie. Yup we've been here before and realized as we arrived at our destination (T-Bones on the Lake) that indeed, we'd been there before as well. I wish we could find a decent map of the area (truly the Rock Hill visitors web site was less than helpful, and to say not user friendly is an understatement). Without the map I really can't get a feel of where we were in relation to where we are staying. Maybe I'll figure it all out before we leave here on Saturday! Well, maybe not!
Anyway, as we sat on the deck enjoying a great lunch, we watched these two turtle friends just hanging out!
Not to mention the grey (blue?) heron just hanging out ....
Or all these geese families. Gosh darn those geese parents are great - they get very very loud when a dog is about ~ guess they don't like boxers ~ oh yeah, they don't like anyone or anything around their babies!
Below, my favorite guys and ugh oh ... honey is looking - just looking, seriously, there is no way we could accommodate one more toy, there just isn't room!
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I dunno Tracey it sounds like you may be possibly having TOO much fun! Thanks for the posts updating your travels. They are great. Love you and miss you.
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