AAA Tucson Padres

What do the Beloves do with a free night in Tucson?  Find a baseball game, of course! 
We located Kino Veterans Memorial Field, home of the Tucson Padres.  How lucky for us that they just happened to be playing the Las Vegas 51s!  For $10.00 each, we scored great seats- one row behind the Padres dugout. And it was Tucson Padres T-shirt give-away night! 

The crowd was lively, if not plentiful. Players, coaches and concessionaires greeted and chatted with the regular fans, giving it a very intimate feeling. 

There was no Diamond-Vision, but fan-participation events abound!

There were Pizza Ponies

The Frozen T-Shirt Contest

Baseball Trivia

 (Do YOU know which baseball player holds the record for stealing home?)

a Dizzy Bat Race

Line-Dancing

And, who could forget...

Human Bowling

Can you take the heat? 
When we arrived at the stadium, trusty squirt-bottle in hand, the thermometer in our car registered 105 degrees.  (Down about 10 degrees from the high point!)  When we left it was STILL 97 degrees at 10:00 PM.  Just look what all that heat did to our gummy bears... poor things never had a chance!  But if you know Carter, you will not be surprised that he ate them, anyway!

Yes, it was a "dry heat,"  but still pretty uncomfortable for this Bay-Area family.

The boys, of course, each were thrown a ball, picking up our adventure right where we left off!

Well, Major-League Baseball it wasn't, but it beat hanging around the hotel room.

Next game:  Houston Astros!