Today we took the girls to their first Mariners' game. It was awesome. Yes, the Mariners did loose their game, but only by one. We got to the stadium and the game was already in the 2nd inning. Robb ran to get some garlic fries and the girls and I found our seats. Their eyes became the size of saucers and they just stared out at the field. Our seats were in the 200 lever in the Terrace Club area. Good seats but I think no matter where we had been sitting the girls would have been in awe.
Olyvia couldn't stop asking questions. To keep things simple we referred to the teams by the colors they were wearing rather than their team name, although I did tell her that the white team were the Mariners and the blue team were the Twins. Her next concept to grasp was that while white players were out in the field we wanted them to catch the ball, but when the blue team was out in the field we didn't want them to catch the ball. Same with batting. She was actually pretty quick to catch on and within a few minutes was consuming fries slowly, one by one, and watching with wide eyes at every play. Ellie was equally intrigued, but seemed to be more so intrigued over the stadium and the set of stairs that were next to our seats. She traveled up and down them quite a few times. Olyvia tried it once and got tired of it, going back to her seat to munch her fries and watch the game. Robb and I took turns sitting next to the girls.
It was quite adorable how much Olyvia got into it and pretty soon you would hear her say things like "Yay! That was good, right mom? They hit it far." or "Hit it way high white team." Just too cute. She was clapping in all the right places always looking to us to make sure she was understanding what was going on and reacting correctly. At the end of the game when it was official that we had lost she said "Darn, the blue team won! Maybe we will have to come back and see the white team win a different time." I agree.
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