Atlanta Braves

What a great weekend! I bought Britt tickets to see the Braves for his birthday. He watches the games religiously, and has never been to a MLB game, so I thought that it would be a great birthday surprise.

We headed to Atlanta yesterday about 10:30 after dropping off Ashlyn with Nana Joyce, and Rudy(the dog) off with a co-worker of Britt. Then we hit the road. Interstate 85 all the way. We were both so excited to get out and do something besides working in the yard at home for one weekend. =)

We got to Atlanta in no time. It only took about 3 1/2 hours. I was very surprised at that. The hard part was finding our hotel. It tooks us ONE HOUR, yes one hour to drive around every street in Atlanta to find our hotel. We finally found it with the help of a police officer.

We get checked into our room which was smoking, and not that I really mind, but Britt and I don't smoke so we really didn't want a smokey smelling room, but hey, you get what you get. That was the only bad thing about the hotel. I did bring my own pillows and my feather comforter, because you would have to pay me a million dollars to sleep under those nasty comforters. I mean how often do you really think that they wash them? YUCK!

Finally we are off to the game. It started at 7:05 Saturday evening so we had a little time to kill. We entered the stadium and walked around the whole dern thing. It was interesting though. They had all kinds of things for you to take pictures of and read about. It was alsmost like a Braves museum.

It was finally time for the game to start so we got some food, which by the way cost $20 for 2 orders of chicken tenders and 1 drink. Beware you will get robbed there, by the vendors. A beer is $6.75. Can you believe that? I mean you can buy a whole 6 pack for that. It's ridiculous!!! The food was OK. It should have been the best chicken that I've ever tasted for that price. =) We then got our drinks. Britt got beer, and since I don't care much for beer I wanted chardonay, but they were out. They only had white zinfindel, so what the hell, at least it's wine. We finally have everything that we needed and headed to our seats.

Our seats were good. We were right down at the field. We could see everything great. I finally got tired of drinking the white zinfindel, so I switched to beer. Can you believe that? Mindy drinking beer. It was a heck of alot better than that dern wine though. It was way too sweet. I can't believe that that is the only kind of wine that I used to drink. YUCK! Ok, back to the game. It was so much fun. The Braves were getting killed in the first half, but then they came back and got 7 runs in one inning. But unfortunaley that wasn't enough. The Braves ended up losing.
=( All in all it was a great day though. We had a blast.

We had so much fun that we bought tickets to todays game at 1:05. We just bought 2 $5 tickets and had seats in the nose bleed section, but the view actually was pretty good. We then went to walk around some more and one of the ushers had left his area so I waved to Britt to hurry up and we went down in the lower section and set there the entire game. So we learned a very valuable lesson. Just by the cheapest tickets, which are only $1, and then wait until everyone gets seated and you can sit in the ground seats. It was GREAT!!!!!!

We are home now, and I'm getting ready to hit the sack, but I wanted to let everyone know how great our weekend was even though the Braves lost both games. BOOOOOOO!!!!!! Maybe we're just bad luck. =) We're definitely wanting to go to more games this year, so if anyone is interested let us know. They really are alot of fun.

I will be posting some pictures shortly.