Our Really Great Date...

Saturday night was our date. We actually had a Saturday night with nothing scheduled. We ran down our list of things we wanted to do. One was to see if the Lexington Legends were in town. They were. A friend gave me tickets to any Lexington Legends game. No rain in the forecast. So we determined to use those tickets for our date night. 

We got to the ball park and they applied to tickets to seats that would have shade the quickest. We are aging and the temperature at 7pm was 84 degrees. The humidity was definitely there. The quicker we could be in the shade the better. We were given seats on the 3rd base side of the ball park. That was fine with us. Turns out the seats were right by the stairs to the best food in the house. We had an usher in our section that was absolutely great. Full of energy. No nonsense about people being safe on the stairs and respecting others view of the game and he was like a cheerleader keeping our energy up for the game. This was going to be a good evening.

I truly believe Claude and I love going to eat ball park food. Maybe it is just being in the open air. Not really sure why, but it is great fun to have something to eat. We each came hungry because we knew we wanted to enjoy our dinner at the ball park. I found a place that sold loaded nachos. Claude found a place that sold Italian sausage sandwiches. We got our food and a soda and found our seats. 

The game was good. Our team lost but it was still a good game. At one point the Legends had the bases loaded with 2 strikes. The batter managed to hit a line drive right to the pitcher who caught it, more to protect his body than a part of trying to win. That was the 3rd out. There were several moments like that during the game. 

At the end of the 1st inning, our usher came over to us and asked us if we would like to move to the best seats in the ball park. What? We didn't already have them. Claude looked at me and I looked at Claude and we were not quite sure what to say. Nobody ever offers that kind of thing to us. We really don't stand out in the crowd. Then we noticed one of the young girls that works at the ball park standing there waiting. We told him we would love that. He told us to follow her.

We walked around the inside hallway of the ball park that is under the stands. Then up some steps and there they were. Toyota's way of advertising is to put two of the seats for the Toyota Avalon in the stands. These seats are hooked up to electricity and you can put them into a full reclining position. These two seats were the best seats in the house. We each took one and fell in love immediately. The young lady took our picture for me. You see, we know Will James, the President of the Georgetown Toyota plant. We wanted him to see us helping with his advertisement. 

After our picture was taken by this nice young girl, she got our first names and told us in the middle of the 2nd inning our pictures would be on the big screen in left field. We would be the advertisement. Goodness. This was turning out to be some great date.

We were told we could stay there for the rest of the game or go back to our other seats, whatever worked for us. We stayed there for a bit but the sun was directly on us and my dear hubby was beginning to sizzle. His fair skin just burns really easy and he has a bad time with skin cancers. We left after an inning or two and went back to the shade and our other great seats with the outstanding usher.

It was now time for round two of our ball park dining. I opted for funnel cake with powdered sugar on top. Claude had to have a burger. Fortunately, all this stuff was down the stairs from our seats. Claude and I made a note for future visits to Whitaker Bank Stadium...Right Field, Section 110, Row 2, Seats 1 & 2. Yup, that is what we will ask for from now on.

After the game was over, there were fireworks. Since our wonderful Japanese fireworks experience, we haven't felt the need to see many fireworks. But these promised to be interesting, not nearly as long as Japanese fireworks, but interesting in their own right. Everyone was given 3D glasses when they entered the stadium. These were to be worn when viewing the fireworks. When you put them on, they made 4 little rainbow colored spots around each bit of light. Imagine that as each burst of light explodes from the fireworks. Yup, these were great in their own right. We totally enjoyed the fireworks. The picture is not taken through the 3D glasses. I could not figure out how to do  that. 

We had a wonderful evening. Just a great date for us. One our way home I eMailed my friend and thanked her again for the tickets and sent her a picture of us having fun. Truly think a few nights at the ball park each summer is a very, very good thing.