baseball, sea dog biscuits, beer & geocaching, can you really have a more perfect sunday? when you add in bugaboo and christmas tree shop, i don't think you can! plus, the peep hit 10000 miles!! go peep go!
the sun journal, where i work, has season tickets for the sea dogs. and when they are not given to advertisers to use the tickets get raffled off to employees. i have won tickets one other time but the game was the day after i had an awful bout with food poisoning so i gave up those tickets. right before i went on vacation there was a raffle at work for a lot of the end of the season games. like i usually do, i said i was up for any of them! and i won the 4 pack for today's game!
last friday when we had kevin's birthday i gave two of the tickets away to my friend kim. i didn't know if kev and i were going to make it to the game anyway, but wanted to save two tickets just in case. it all depended on if that was his first night back to work or not (they just switched him from days to nights, midnight to 9am and that would be his first day back after vacation). if he was working than we would go to the game. if he wasn't working we would go to the pig roast upta camp. it turns out that he was working, but still didn't want to go to the game, so christy and moxie came with me!
as i usually do now, i looked up what caches were in the area of where we were headed. believe it or not there were two right on the grounds of the sports complex! we wanted to get in and get our seats so we decided to hit up the caches after the game.
it was the 2nd to last game of the regular season, field of dreams day and fan appreciation day! this was the first time i had ever been to a sea dogs game--surprising since they are the farm team for my beloved red sox and they are just 40 mins away! even so, i felt a little awkward wearing some of the many many many many many (shall i go on) articles of red sox clothing that fill my wardrobe, so decided on a sam adams hat and a tee fury shirt, with my red sox pull over just in case i got cold.
in my opinion, you can't have a baseball game with out beer. so chris & i picked up some shocktop from the vendors before heading to our seats. the season ticket seats that sun journal has are AWESOME! we were 10 rows back from home plate! 2 rows back from the clock that registers how fast the pitches go!we weren't there long before moxie found
some friends -- everyone loves her. i can only imagine how kc would do in such a situation, we would surely be asked to leave lol. almost right as we got there stuff started happening on the field. the announcer came out in an all argyle get up, oh how i love argyle! and then the team started coming out of the corn field they had set up in far center field, it was field of dreams day after all! once all the players got up to the home plate area we found out that it was also fan appreciation day! all the players came out into the stands and shook our hands! i tried to get a picture of one of the players, #29 i believe, shaking christy's hand but didn't have such luck. the player who shook my hand--didn't see his number--was quite the looker!a few innings in we indulged ourselves with a sea dogs must have, a sea dog biscuit. basically a chocolate chip cookie ice cream sandwich. what better lunch than cookies, ice cream and beer? the sea dogs were playing the new hampshire fisher cats and beat them 9 to 2! they were off to a slow start with the fisher cats in the lead for the first few issues. but dogs always prevail over cats don't they?
but this is a blog about geocaching, not baseball, right? so after the game we went to where thefirst cache, GC23M89, original six number 6 montreal canadians, was located. there were a few muggles around but they were all worried about getting to their cars to see if any of the foul balls did any damage (that's what you get for parking right next to the ball park!). we got in the general area and chris found it right away! it looked like it had fallen from its original position, which may have helped. chris spotted the dip can and commented on how usually she wouldn't have thought it could be it but she thought it was funny that it was just black with no label on it. bingo! signed the log and we were on to the next one, GC143X6, the atlanta braves, on the opposite side of the ball park. as we were leaving i said "well that's a cool building", i guess it used to be the stables for the police horses. chris remembered them actually being there when she was younger, but they have since moved them to a less noisy area.this one took a little while to locate, the gps was bouncing a bit but i knew we were in the rightarea thanks to the satellite view from google of the location. we looked and looked, and looked again. we had some muggles who had parked right near there and asked what we were up to. christy explained that we were on a sort of scavenger hunt. they then assumed that we were training moxie, and christy explained that mox was actually her service dog. i wonder if she ever gets tired of explaining that service dogs are not only for the blind. i was just about to
give up from looking, but at the same time didn't want to seeing as we rarely got down toportland. i was looking over by a light post in the area, on it, under it. chris came over and lifted up a part of the base and BINGO! "i didn't even know that could lift up!" there was a jr. portland police badge sticker inside with the log even though it was a micro. it would just about fit this tiny "homies" figurine i had found while cleaning out the office. i have no clue where it came from, but it's a good little cache item for sure!after finding the two caches it was time to head back to the car. we stopped at mcdonalds to get moxie some chicken nuggets and chris a small burger. then we headed over to bugaboo. chris didn't realize it was a restaurant or otherwise wouldn't have eaten, but that just meant more leftovers to eat the next day. of course we had my sister, mara, as a waitress, that's pretty much the only reason i go there :-)
our thoughts were, why not make a full day out of it? so we headed over to the christmas tree shop after dinner. i had been in one only once ever before and it was to walk in and walk out. mara needed a shaker, we were short on time and she knew exactly where it was. if you have ever been in a christmas tree shop, you know what an amazing experience your first time can be. they have SO MUCH STUFF! and it's SOOOOO CHEAP!!!!!! i got this awesome red sox puzzle that is in the shape of a pennant -- that will get put together and go into the red sox room (aka office, aka craft room, aka monster mess) for sure!
last year i was looking for orange vests for kc for her to wear during hunting season but the cheapest i found was $30 and where she was still growing i didn't want to get something that she would grow out of in a few months, so i passed on it. fortunately she made it through hunting season without any incidents. while we were at the christmas tree shop, i was an isle or so behind chris, she came to the pet section where they had costumes for cats and dogs and held one out questioning if i thought moxie would tolerate such an outfit. i don't remember what it was that she was holding because when i looked that direction i zoned in on the orange mesh vests with yellow reflective tape and zoned everything else out. right on top was a large, and for.... get this..... ONLY $2.99!!! we tried the large on moxie and it was a bit snug, which worried me because kc is a bit bigger and has a TON more fur than moxie does. fortunately, wayyyyy in the back there was an xxl! perfect!
i also picked up a small non-stick frying pan for making omelets (when i make them in the big pans they always turn out a scramble as opposed to an omelet), some silly bands for geocaching trade items, some argyle pens (i told you i loved argyle), and a baseball plush toy for kc girl. after looking at most every single item in the christmas tree shop we checked out and headed to the car. can you believe that we were in there for 2 hours??
we had such a good time, as we usually do when we hang out. it was a great sunday for sure.
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