A bittersweet day in the Powell house. Although we are psyched for football season ( a little less psyched after Georgia and Furman's losses yesterday...ugh), we are always sad to say goodbye to baseball for the year! We decided to head out to Turner Field one last time to cheer on our Braves, and when Greg got front row seats in section 405 for $2.50 each...there was no debate! :) the seats were awesome and we really got our money's worth when the game went into extra innings! We stayed in our seats through the 7th inning stretch and then headed up to Sky Field (for those of you not familiar with the Ted, it is a wide open area on the top level of the outfield -right next to the Coke bottle and the Cow that does the chop!) Anywhoo, there is a place for the kids to run from "home to 1st base" - I think the same distance as the real field - and I promise the boys ran, got back in line, ran again, etc. for a full hour and a half! They had a ball and completely wore themselves out! It was hysterical...at first they were very intense...running their little legs off...but then as time went on they started getting really silly! 
Around the beginning of the 14th (yes you read that correctly) inning, all seats were opened up so we headed down about 14 rows behind the dugout. SO cool! The boys (and we) loved being able to really see the players and where the pitches were...unfortunately, we also saw a horrible final call that mistakenly called a checked swing a strike...we think the ump was just hungry and ready to go! Even with that...we had a wonderful day! The weather was perfect and all 3 of the boys enjoyed themselves, even after, as we were walking in, Tanner missed a step and tumbled - complete with a full flip - down the concrete steps to the rail at the bottom. Incredibly, he wasn't hurt, just scared to death (so were we!). He is such a tough little guy!
To top off the day and the season, we headed to the world famous Varsity for dinner...yum! Needless to say...all three were asleep before we got back on the highway and Greg and I are totally exhausted...but it was such a wonderful day!
Hope you all are well and enjoying these beautiful days!
2 comments:
So fun! I am so amazed at you guys doing that with three little ones, but it looks like they loved it. What awesome memories.
YEAH! A blog update from the Powells. Y'all are poster children for family fun.
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