Baseballcation 2013 Day One!

 

 

It was a log day yesterday, we drove from home to Chicago to see the dodgers play the cubs at wrigley field. And it was super fun. For the updates on Facebook or Instagram, follow us! We are enjoying sharing our fun trip with friends and family, and my regular blog followers:)

 

 
 

 

Awkward family photo with my iPhone, taken by the drunk guys behind us. 

Spotted this pretty sky driving to our hotel in Kenosha, Wisconsin last night. 

 Grabbed some White Castle for some later dinner (I love me some sliders!) and we managed to get a late night cache to complete day three of our geocache every day in August challenge. :) 

 And those are Hadley's sweet souvenirs. We've got a tiny foam finger at home from the kids club at Cleveland that she wanted to bring, and I let her forget about it so I didn't have to pack it just for it to get lost however, upon arrival, she discovered the big ones, and was in love, and I thought "why not? How cute will she be with the giant foam finger the size of HER?!" It was cute. There is no photo. I will try to remember today. And it was bobble head day for the first 10,000 in. We were not one of the first 10,000. But those drunk guys we made friends with at the end found us this one, in three pieces. First the body, then the head, then the box. It doesn't bobble. It just sits there. Hadley doesn't care. This makes our bobble head count two now. Both by default. The first was left behind at the playground at a pirates game last season, and we snagged it. That was hanrahan. This is some dude I can't remember. And my family is snuggling on me so I can't get up and look. 

Anyway. We are trying to get up and at 'em and drive from our hotel to Milwaukee to visit miller park, home of the brewers. I am looking forward to our brief visit in a new city, and a new ballpark, and coming back to the same great no name hotel tonight. It's so nice. Some random place we scored last minute. When we are in a different city every day, we will be packing up EVERY DAY on our trip. But with Chicago and Milwaukee just 1.5 hours apart, we split the drive, and made our home (for two nights!) along the lake in Kenosha. 

We are excited for another day of baseball, and 72 degrees and sunshine. Have a great Sunday, everyone!

Xoxo, al

 
 

The Boys of Summer

hadley is telling everyone we see we are going on baseballcation, so i thought "why the heck not?!" so it's official. this morning we are headed out on our baseballcation 2013. we are going to find the boys in blue. and i am going to find andre ethier.

we are so excited for our week away from home. it couldn't have come at a better time. with all the chaos and craziness, i am dying to spend a week out of this house! and hey, the dodgers are on fire!! last night they won their 12th road game in a row, for the first time since 1928, i think. perhaps we will get to see some other great dodger history:)

baseballcation is taking us to...

six cities: chicago, milwaukee, st. louis, kansas city, and back to toledo. 

five MLB stadiums: wrigley field in chicago, miller park in milwaukee, u.s. cellular field in chicago, busch stadium in st. louis, and kauffman stadium in kansas city. four out of these five are new to us! 

two minor league stadiums: victory field, the home of the AAA indianapolis indians, and 5th 3rd field in toledo, home of our precious mud hens. in indy, we will see them play toledo. in toledo, we will see them play indy. victory field is new to us, we've only seen the outside. 5th 3rd field is our back yard. if we are within a 2 mile radius, hadley asks if it's baseball tonight.

we will see the dodgers for three games, in two cities. otherwise, i don't remember who we see. i am just all kinds of concentrating how to get close to andre ethier.

so anyway, we are off now, and i will keep y'all posted on our adventures. if you follow me on facebook or instagram, you'll probably be able to keep a closer eye on all the awesomeness that is

baseballcation 2013