Astros Vs. Red Sox

In honor of Opening Day, I figured a baseball post was in order.  :)

For those of you who don't know, my husband transferred to Houston a little over 2 years ago, and the boys and I followed around 6 months later.

Our favorite thing about living in this city is that there is SO much to do.  Granted, Austin had a lot to do also, especially if you're an outdoor lover, but living with kids.. Houston is by far the better choice, at least for our family.

I might actually do a post about things to do in Houston with kiddos.. I'm sure I could fill up a month long series pretty easily.

Anywhoo, last night we took the kids to their first ever Major League Baseball game.  Brandon and I both went to Astros games when we were younger (separately, of course, with our own families), but they played in the Astrodome then, so this was a new experience for us too.  We've done the tour of the ballpark (post about that here) and we even had Brodie's 6th Birthday Party there (post about that here), but we've never actually been there when a game is going on.  

My first go at posing with this cut-out...

Brandon - "Um, you should probably move your hands."  LOL!

LOL... much better.

They have SUPER cheap tickets in the section wayyyyy up high.  We thought some cheap seats would be a good choice for the boys first game since we'd be less likely to get hit by foul balls, and if they hated it we could leave early with little loss money wise.

Our sunny view in the Upper Deck.

Oh. My. Word.  Never again.  We loved the game.  Hated the seats. 

I'm actually a little scared of heights, and when we entered into our section and I saw how steep the seating was, I immediately told Brandon that I thought this might be a bad idea.  lol.   I'm okay forcing myself to face my fears, but I was also scared one of the kids would take a tumble and be a goner.  A little dramatic? Maybe, but I'm tellin' ya, I was sweatin' bullets until we decided to move seats after the 2nd inning. 

If you're not scared of heights, tickets in the Upper Deck are only $7 for adults and $1 for kids 3 and up.  Our tickets were only a buck more than our parking.  Crazy.  We actually spent more on food than we did for our parking AND our tickets.

NEXT time, we plan on taking advantage of the Coca Cola days.  If you're a Houstonian, this is still a good deal because the seating is lower down (Yay!), includes a hotdog and drink ($10 savings right there), and an Astros cap ($10 again)... for only $20.  We'll probably go on a Friday night when they do the fireworks.

Back to our experience, after the 2nd inning, we moved down to the stroller/handicap accessible seating for our section.  My pulse returned to a normal rate, and the kids were able to really enjoy themselves since they had room to move around, and I wasn't constantly telling them to sit back so they wouldn't fall.  LOL!

Yeah... it was that bad, haha. 

So innings 3-7 we had a ton of fun.  Brodie ingested a whole bucket of popcorn pretty much by himself, and spent the whole time "Booooing" Boston.  It was so adorably cute.  :)

We ended up leaving a little early because it was getting really late and Brodie had school today, but we made sure to hit the Squeeze play before we left.  Minute Maid Park has a huge playground and interactive sport game area for the kids to run around in, which is awesome.  They also played in it before game too, since we arrived early.

Overall- great experience.  We were worried the boys might be bored ... baseball is a slow game and I remember being bored to tears as a child when I went, but they're both begging to go back.

Oh... and the score?  10-0, Boston.  Lol, oh well.  

Are there any sporting events you and your family enjoy?

 :)  Courtney