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Knights Baseball

The Charlotte Knights are the city’s minor league baseball team. This year the new uptown stadium opened. We decided that we needed to get to a game before the season ended next week. As you can see, waiting until the last minute is not uncommon in our family. What is also not uncommon is inviting the Youngs to go with us. We do so many things together that Sidney says that she doesn’t even need to have her own blog because she is getting it all documented through me. Glad to help, Sidney!

Because we waited until the last minute to buy the tickets, we had to settle for seats on the hill behind the score board. I wasn’t too impressed with the cheap seats at the new field. Eventually we got to sit on a closer hill, and then in the end we just sat down in the good seats after the game began to clear out. It was a school night, but that didn’t deter us from waiting until the end of the game so that the kids could run the bases.  They will talk about that until next season.

I knew that Homer was signing baseball paraphernalia in the store during the sixth inning so we walked over to find him.  Of course, I wasn’t going to buy anything and stand in line like all of the other families, but Homer was nice enough to turn around and say “hello” to the kids for a minute anyway. Here are all the kids with Homer the Dragon….

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Bobby, Sidney, Tom, me and Wilson up on the hill….

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Here is Wilson and Faith after running the bases….and yes, they wear their green swim necklaces at all times and everywhere they go…..

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Tom and Miller after running the bases….Miller tripped and fell on the way to second base and did not enjoy the rest of the running…..

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After leaving the stadium, we walked through Romare Bearden Park which is right across the street.  It is a beautiful park with a floor that makes noise when you step on it and a waterfall with multicolored lights.  The kids (and Grandpa) could walk behind the waterfall and stand without getting too wet.  Grandpa actually led the way!  Eventually, the boys did just walk right through the water and got soaking wet.  It may have been late on a school night but we couldn’t deny the kids their fun.

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I just loved this picture of the waterfalls in front of the city scape…

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I am so glad that we decided to go to the baseball game.  It was a fun night, the weather was gorgeous and we got to do something new and different to keep life exciting.