Kid Free = Fancy Free (without the Fancy-ness): Part 1

Over the past few summers, Craig's parents have offered to take the kids for a few days during their vacation. This was the first year that all three have gone. Craig and I were very excited about having Wednesday night through Sunday afternoon all to ourselves. We had a blast trying to decide what we would do during our kid free vacation.

Wednesday night (after I met Craig's parents for lunch for the switchoff), we took in a Braves game. It was 2-for-1 Wednesday, so we got two tickets in the outfield bottom section for only $22. On the way down, we met two families - the first was a couple who was visiting from Holland. Leah and Tony were about to move into the area and had just made an offer in the city right next to ours. We chatted the whole Marta ride down to the stadium about their move back to the US, our kids and we even invited them to church. One the bus from the Marta station to the ballpark, we met a family on their vacation. They had three little boys with them and I told them I admired their "gumption" to bring three kids down to the game! We had great conversations with both of them.

After all that chatting (and travelling), we finally got to the field. We got there early enough to watch batting practice, enjoy a yummy bbq dinner and walk around Turner Field. For each game we've gone to, we've tried to make it early enough to watch BP, but this is the first time we've actually made it!

batting practice - what a beautiful afternoon

aren't we cute?

Chipper up to bat, Prado at second - ready to score the first run of the game

We had really good seats. Thanks to our binoculars, we could see everything very well and we weren't in the sun. The tickets we had tried to get (before they ran out) were in the direct sunset line for about half the game. Mental note - in Turner field, choose the 3rd base line seats. The game was great - a huge braves win 11-1 over the Phillies!!!! As we were boarding the buses to take us back to the Marta station, we found ourselves right behind our Marta buddies, Leah and Tony!!

A great kickoff to our time alone.