Thursday, June 30, 2011
Thursday, June 16, 2011
Funky Transformers, River Cat's $1 hot dogs & desserts and bratty little kids! sponcered by Toyota
I went to the River Cat's game at Railey Field against the Tacoma Rainiers last Friday with my best friend and her family. Let me tell you, it was awesome! My best friend's mother-in-law bought a package of tickets that she can redeem at any time for any regular season game. It was the first baseball game I've been to since high school with Kennedy's marching band.
While we were waiting for the rest of our group to get there, the topic of the moment was this Transformer looking thing in the construction zone. It was pretty crazy looking, it didn't even look like it had a purpose there... just a fancy construction ornament. I'm pretty sure it was a Decepticon because it looked pretty awkward... too awkward to explain in blog form.
It was Toyota Family Value Friday which meant $1 hot dogs and desserts. When we got through the gate we were greeted by Rhythm and Shoes Tap Dancers. They tap danced to 50's music We didn't stay long to watch. We found our seats and headed to get our hot dogs and sodas before the game started.
My best friends niece got a baseball bat that she kept hitting people with and dropping... I was dubbed Sir Dusty! We also gave her a sweat jacket that we got her at the gift shop when we redeemed the tickets earlier that week. She absolutely loved it!
We got the $1 desserts, catered by Big Spoon Yogurt, during the middle of the game. They advertised strawberry, vanilla or chocolate ice cream. By the time we got there all that was left was chocolate and it was pre-packaged at the ice cream shop so it was frozen solid. It tasted like frozen chocolate pudding.
Sometime during the game started raining popcorn... It came from the 2 clowns that we invited in the seats behind us. I guess the popcorn buckets are so big that you feel compelled to throw it in the row in front of you because you can't finish it.
They did a lot of events in between innings. they tossed t-shirts into the crowd and played games on the field. Nobody won anything major. We did a lot of the chants that the marching band does at Sac State football games at the baseball game. Some of the chants didn't quite fit but we didn't realize it until after we did it.
While the game was going on there was this bratty little kid, about 5 years old, that would hang around one of our group members. Her parents would try to discipline her but she would just get mad, hit them, continue what she was doing and she would get away with it!... I'm not a parent and I don't have any parenting experience but i don't think that should be acceptable.
The game started out well. At the end of the first inning the Rainiers didn't score and we had 1 run. The score board didn't change until the 4th inning. After that my selective memory kicked in... lets just say the final score was 5-2. It was the first loosing River Cats game I've been to but it was also the most fun and eventfull.
the official game article:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110611&content_id=20326644&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&sid=t105
While we were waiting for the rest of our group to get there, the topic of the moment was this Transformer looking thing in the construction zone. It was pretty crazy looking, it didn't even look like it had a purpose there... just a fancy construction ornament. I'm pretty sure it was a Decepticon because it looked pretty awkward... too awkward to explain in blog form.
It was Toyota Family Value Friday which meant $1 hot dogs and desserts. When we got through the gate we were greeted by Rhythm and Shoes Tap Dancers. They tap danced to 50's music We didn't stay long to watch. We found our seats and headed to get our hot dogs and sodas before the game started.
My best friends niece got a baseball bat that she kept hitting people with and dropping... I was dubbed Sir Dusty! We also gave her a sweat jacket that we got her at the gift shop when we redeemed the tickets earlier that week. She absolutely loved it!
We got the $1 desserts, catered by Big Spoon Yogurt, during the middle of the game. They advertised strawberry, vanilla or chocolate ice cream. By the time we got there all that was left was chocolate and it was pre-packaged at the ice cream shop so it was frozen solid. It tasted like frozen chocolate pudding.
Sometime during the game started raining popcorn... It came from the 2 clowns that we invited in the seats behind us. I guess the popcorn buckets are so big that you feel compelled to throw it in the row in front of you because you can't finish it.
They did a lot of events in between innings. they tossed t-shirts into the crowd and played games on the field. Nobody won anything major. We did a lot of the chants that the marching band does at Sac State football games at the baseball game. Some of the chants didn't quite fit but we didn't realize it until after we did it.
While the game was going on there was this bratty little kid, about 5 years old, that would hang around one of our group members. Her parents would try to discipline her but she would just get mad, hit them, continue what she was doing and she would get away with it!... I'm not a parent and I don't have any parenting experience but i don't think that should be acceptable.
The game started out well. At the end of the first inning the Rainiers didn't score and we had 1 run. The score board didn't change until the 4th inning. After that my selective memory kicked in... lets just say the final score was 5-2. It was the first loosing River Cats game I've been to but it was also the most fun and eventfull.
the official game article:
http://web.minorleaguebaseball.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110611&content_id=20326644&vkey=recap&fext=.jsp&sid=t105
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Wednesday, June 1, 2011
mexican food, shopping and locked cars at a jazz festival
I went to the jazz festival last Sunday for the first time in 4 years... it was quite disappointing. You couldn't really do much without buying tickets. We watched a percussion group drum on random objects like trash cans, glass bottles and recycling bins which was pretty cool. We went to Old City Kites to check out some yoyos. I really hope they get another shipment in soon. A lot of people don't know that kite shops also specialize in yoyos too, even though they don't advertise it. I got a characiture done with my friend... it came out pretty funky. I kinda looked like that YouTube guy, Sam Tsui. After we did all that stuff that didn't have anything what-so-ever to do with jazz, we ended up going to a Mexican restaurant in Old Sac, La Terraza, because we found coupons attached to the restaurants advertisement sign. We got an entree for $9.99 if we ordered a drink. That basically meant we got a free drink because the entree was originally $12.99. It was really busy but we were lucky because we were seated right away. They sat us on the balcony, in the sun! I guess it was ok because we were able to watch the drummers drum while we ate. After a while I noticed they used the same 2 routines every time and just rotated every other performance. While we were waiting for our food I had to run to Macy's to get out parking validated. Because we parked in the Macy's lot we had to get it validated there. The food was really good. On our way out we stopped at the souvenir booth. They had a lot of specials going on because it was the end of the day and it was also near the end of the jazz festival. My friend got a t-shirt and sweats for $10 and I got 2 key chains for free.
My mom called; it was time to return the car back to the house. We made it back to the Macy's lot but it was locked!!! We walked around the mall, talked to a few security officers and we found out that this happens all the time and nothing can be done about it. We just had to pick it up the next morning. I called my mom to let her know the car was locked up and my friend called someone for a ride. luckily we had someone to come get us. I feel sorry for the people that got their cars locked up and they don't have anyone to come get them.
We went to get my car the next morning. I had plotted and rehearsed a plan over and over in my head to get my car out for free. I made sure I had a story and my ticket to tell the parking attendant before I got in the car. By the time I got to the attendant my ticket had gone missing! But all was not lost... I talked to the guy and he ended up letting me out for free.
That's how you you spend a not so jazzy day at the jazz festival.
My mom called; it was time to return the car back to the house. We made it back to the Macy's lot but it was locked!!! We walked around the mall, talked to a few security officers and we found out that this happens all the time and nothing can be done about it. We just had to pick it up the next morning. I called my mom to let her know the car was locked up and my friend called someone for a ride. luckily we had someone to come get us. I feel sorry for the people that got their cars locked up and they don't have anyone to come get them.
We went to get my car the next morning. I had plotted and rehearsed a plan over and over in my head to get my car out for free. I made sure I had a story and my ticket to tell the parking attendant before I got in the car. By the time I got to the attendant my ticket had gone missing! But all was not lost... I talked to the guy and he ended up letting me out for free.
That's how you you spend a not so jazzy day at the jazz festival.
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