Wednesday, September 2, 2009

Boy's Night Out to America's Game

This past Saturday was a "Boy's Night Out". Mike, Uncle Sonny and Pop took all of the "big" boys to see the SF Giants play the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park. They all had a great time. Let me say that my boys first love are the Boston Red Sox, but they have grown to like and follow the Giants as well. And hey, who wouldn't get excited to go watch a game at beautiful AT&T Park.

The boys were all so excited to spend the afternoon and evening together. Alexander and Matthew made homemade signs and printed out "Panda" masks to bring along. Mike, Alexander and Matthew drove down to my sister's house, where they met up with Uncle Sonny, Nicholas, Ben and POP too! They headed out to the city in order to get there in time to receive a SF Giants gym bag, which were being given out to the first...20,ooo (or something like that). They just had to get a bag or else the whole night would have been a disaster!!

After getting their bags (YAY!), they headed over to Amici's Pizza for a good ol' NY style pizza pie, which even satisfied the toughest palette of the group..POP! He gave a the pizza a thumbs-up..."best pizza I have had since I left NY"!

One of the great things about the game was third baseman Pablo Sandoval, who is nicknamed Kung-Fu Panda. The kids were so excited to see him and loved watching him, one of the Giants great players, in the field and at bat. Panda did not disappoint. In fact he hit a home run into the "Splash Zone" which made the kids pretty happy!

Overall is was great game. The Giants won, the weather wasn't too cold and most importantly the older boy cousins had a great time hanging out together. Before we know it, Andrew and Brendan will be tagging along too.

Here are a few snapshots from the night...(thanks to Uncle Sonny).