After spinning our wheels a bit at home figuring out whether
we knew where the tickets were, did we have the hotel reservations, what
clothes do we need for an overnight, things like that, we FINALLY got going
about 9:30. But we still had to go back to Jeep to bring them a part for our
car. We’re heading first for Don & Charlies, a baseball oriented bar &
grill in Scottsdale that Kris told us about where we’ll have lunch and a beer.
(Note to self: check the opening hours of restaurants before making plans. Don
& Charlies only opens for dinner.)
We now will have a companion for all our games: Cubby Bear!
I’d rather have Giants Bear, but our friends, Kris and Ray, are Cubs fans (or
at least were in Chicago!) and when they went to the Build A Bear Workshop they
built a Cubby Bear. Cubby Bear is very cute, all dressed in a Cubs uniform and
we’ll be taking him with us to the ball games so we can get a photo of him (and
us, of course) at every stadium.
Our first game and Cubby Bear’s first game—at least with us—was
at Chase Field: San Francisco Giants vs Arizona Diamondbacks. If you care about
baseball, you already know the outcome, 5-4 Giants after a nailbiter of an 8
th
inning! Bumgarner was great but then everything went south. Not completely
south because the Giants did win, but only after Bochy went through four
pitchers in the top of the 8
th. Pretty exciting especially since our
seats were just behind the Giants’ dugout, in the second row! We weren’t sure
CB in his pretty carrier would be allowed, but he was so we’ll take that as an
omen for future admissions.
We’ve been reading about the security measures such as no
reusable water bottle,(wrong, at least for Chase) only unopened commercial ones
and the fact that most if not all stadiums will have metal detectors at all
entrances (true and a real bottleneck. I feel SO safe). Whoopee. It seems to me
that is a solution in search of a problem.
Nice hotel and the concierge in the lounge wants to follow
my blog! I’m acquiring fans!
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