Summer Vacation Day Two

Thursday was the day we were going to take the kids to their first major league baseball game. The Houston Astros were playing the Los Angeles Dodgers at 1 p.m. at Minute Maid Park. They have an outfield section that tickets are only $7 for adults and $1 for children, so we could take our whole family to the game for only $16. You can’t beat that. Plus the Astros were having a $1 hot dog promotion at the game. Everybody was excited. Noah had his baseball hat on and couldn’t wait for the game.

By the time we made it to downtown, parked and got into the ticket line it was about 1 p.m., and they were just starting the national anthem. It took us about 20 minutes to get through the ticket line, and I had assumed there would be plenty of tickets. Corianne had gone to the game before and the section always had plenty of seats. Corianne had told me that maybe we should buy the tickets online, but I said there would be no need since I’m sure there would be plenty of tickets since it was a midweek day game and it was only the Dodgers.

Well, when we got through the line we found out the cheapest seats they had left were $15. Instead of $16 to see the game, it would have cost us $60. We weren’t going to pay that much, so we didn’t get to go. When we told the kids, Noah started to cry. I asked him why he was so sad and he said he was upset because he had wanted to get a hot dog.

We were going to go somewhere to eat downtown, but there really isn’t much as far as family oriented affordable restaurants. So we got back into the car and were going to go to a pizza buffet. In the car, Teegan became upset and was crying most of the way back because he was hungry and Ceanna started to throw up in the back so we just headed back to the apartment and ordered pizza and went to the pool for the rest of the afternoon.

For dinner we went to Pappasitos Cantina, a place I had gone to with the softball team and really liked. They are famous for their fajitas. It was pretty busy and it took about three hours for us to be seated, served and get our bill. The manager came and gave us half off all the adult meals and all the kids meals free, plus we came home with a big bag of every desert they had. That was all a bonus because the food was great and the kids were fine playing with each other. We were outside away from most of the people, so the three hour wait wasn’t too bad for us, but paying more than half of what you had expected and getting free desert was a bonus.

On Friday we are going to the Space Center and then watching some fireworks in the evening. On a side note, I found a Wii Fit at the Wal-Mart here and couldn’t pass it up. They had just got a shipment of eight and I snatched the first one.

Me and my new best bud Teegan

We had to run to the store to get Paysen a new birthday present since we forgot it at home. He gave Noah and Shelby a hug to thank them. Shelby didn't know how to react.