Category: vacation
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Spring Vacation Day Nine – The Way Home
We woke up early (tried for 4:30AM, but it was really more like 5:00AM) and got the last of the things ready for the car. Four trips later, the car was loaded up, so we went to the hotel kitchen to get a bite to eat for the road and got started. The sun had…
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Spring Vacation Day Eight – Athletics vs Giants
Today was the last baseball game of the trip and the Athletics hosted the cross-bay rival Giants. The game wasn’t so great from the perspective of the A’s, except for the five innings thrown by Trevor Cahill. The only thing bad that happened to him was Travis Ishikawa belted the first of his two homeruns. …
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Spring Vacation Day Seven – Phoenix Zoo and Papago Park
We got up earlier than normal today s o we could get to the Phoenix Zoo shortly after it opened. It was nice to be able to go everywhere without trying to navigate people, but that changed about thirty minutes in when the kids on field trips arrived. It was one of the busiest days…
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Spring Vacation Day Six – Athletics at Rangers
Today was the only ‘road trip’ of our games this week. We ate breakfast and hopped in the car for the hour drive up to Surprise, Arizona. Surprise Stadium is in the middle of the Surprise Recreation Campus, which includes practice fields, picnic grounds, a library, tennis courts, community pool and a water park. Both…
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Spring Vacation Day Five – Out of Africa and Sedona
Today we went on a ninty minute drive up I17 to the town of Campe Verde and the wild animal park nearby called Out of Africa. We left about an hour late and the place was pretty packed. While on the the ‘safari’ ride, the driver said that they normally get 500 people but today…
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Spring Vacation Day Four – Baseball and Hockey
Today was a long day. We got to Phoenix Muni early, almost too early. Parking was open, but the stadium wasn’t, so we went inside the shop to browse around. I bought myself another straw hat, since you can never have too many of them. When we finally got inside, we headed over near the…
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Spring Vacation Day Three – Dodgers at Athletics
Today was the first baseball game of the trip, with the A’s hosting the Dodgers split squad. After allowing the Dodgers to put up four runs in the second, they came back and scored nine in the third. They wanted to coast home, but the Dodgers put up four runs in the ninth to bring…
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Spring Vacation Day Two – Eastbound to Phoenix
We are tired. Last night we all had some kind of problems sleeping. Hunter decided that he couldn’t keep so much milk in his stomach, and burped up a lot of it all over Heather and the bed. He had to get new clothes on and calmed down enough to go back to sleep. I…
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Spring Vacation Day One – Down California
We left this morning for our trip to Arizona. The main attractions are four spring training baseball games featuring the Oakland Athletics, visiting San Jose Sharks at Phoenix Coyotes and a couple zoos. We planned on leaving at about nine am this morning, but we had a missing kitty to find. We weren’t sure if…