The D'backs came to town...

The Diamondbacks played a 3 game series against the Washington Nationals... Friday, Saturday, & Sunday. Friday we had been invited to dinner at our friends, so no game (Quinn later found out he missed the free Miller Lite pitcher and cup set giveaway). Saturday the boys went golfing, unfortunately the guy who set up the tee time made it for 12 noon... they NEVER finish a game of golf in under 5hrs. The game started at 7pm, technically we COULD have gone, but he was wiped. Sooooo... Sunday rolls around. OF COURSE it is raining when we wake up, pours while we are at church, lets up while we clean the house, then begins to pour again. We flipped on the TV and the pre-game show in DC comes on- NO RAIN! What the heck... so we quickly grabbed water bottles and jumped in the truck. 30ish minutes later (no traffic-whoo!) we were parking and had only missed the 1st inning (and the D'backs only home run, oh well).

The stadium is really nice, there are a lot of things to do for the kids (playground, batting cages, and pictures with the presidents-they race instead of the hot dogs like at the D'backs games). It's a "green" stadium, which is super cool, and very clean.

During the 6th inning some stupid protesters ran onto the field with a sign trying to protest the SB1070- seriously? It's a baseball game, get over it already people! I have pictures of it, but I have decided they don't deserve recognition for what they did. The news already covered it, I will not feed into their "15min of fame." I'm glad they got arrested and each fined $1,000. Then during the 7th inning stretch I was very disheartened... I felt like the only two people singing along with "God Bless America," were Quinn and I... no joke. The capitol of the United States of America and NO ONE SINGS ALONG TO A PATRIOTIC SONG. But...everyone has a grand 'ole time singing "Take Me Out to the Ballgame." So incredibly sad. =/

Overall it was a fun (rushed) afternoon. We even caught the tail-end of our friends open house for their daughter's baptism back on base! Here are some pictures of the day: