We love our Diamondacks!

Who ever said that nothing in life is free?! Oh, wait that was my High School Ecomomics teacher (yes I did pay attention :) Well, I beg to differ, because we experienced some pretty sweet FREE stuff last week...

We got two free tickets to last Thursday's Diamondback's game from Todd's cousin. The seats were awesome! First Row, right behind the backstop on the upper level. For those of you who aren't familiar, you have a great view of the field from there.

So, at first, I was going to take Chansey by myself, but at the last minute, we all decided to go. We went to eat dinner first planning on being a little late to the game. (our kids probably wouldn't be cool with sitting through the whole game anyway) So after a yummy dinner at Someburros we headed to downtown Phoenix to look for a parking space (which normally costs $10 or $15) Well, we were about an hour late for the game so all of the parking lot attendants were already gone. We ended up getting a parking space in the garage attached to Chase Field (which means you only have to walk about 50 yards and you are there) And since there was no one there to charge us, it was FREE!!

When we got to the gate to go in, we asked where we could buy tickets since we only had two and we needed five. The man at the door just handed us some tickets and said "Here you go"! Again... FREE!! We were stoked! His tickets were not great seats, so we went to see if there was room for all of us to sit in the section where our tickets were. And, sure enough, there were lots of empty seats. So we had a great view and watched the second half of the game with very few interruptions. The kids were so good and since the D-backs won, we were all a little hoarse from screaming. They are old enough so they understand what is happening during the game, so it was really fun!

A nice security guard took this picture for us... not the best, but oh well, it's for posterity right?!

Chansey and Eathan had a blast. They really do enjoy watching the games.

Spencer was enthralled with the lights and all of the noise. You can see here, he is intently watching. And the man in the backround was a grumpy Giants fan. We had fun watching him whenever he got mad that the D-backs scored.

This was the view from our seats. Even Loco Bella had fun! We had to make a few potty runs, but it was no problem because the bathrooms were right behind the section we were sitting in.

So the moral of this story is... some things in life are free! And it sure is fun when they are! We love family outings and this one is at the top of the list.

The second moral of the story is that even though the D-backs lost three games in a row and now they are out of contention for the playoffs... we still think they ROCK!!

Better luck next year guys!