Mariner's Game in the Vulcan Suite... My OH My!!!
I was invited to a Mariner's Game for Tuesday, August 9th by the Bicycle Alliance of Washington. I invited my college friend, Curtis, to go with since there are many times he invites me to share his 'season' tickets with him each year.
I picked him up in downtown Seattle in front of his work building and drove to the Qwest Field parking lot. We were able to get prime parking spots in the garage. WOW! Much better than paying money on the street several blocks away. We then walked over to the stadium and went in. Usually we walk around the stadium on the lower level but this time we took an elevator up to the Suite level. We got off the elevator and immediately had to show our tickets in order to get to the suite area. We were glancing into several suites, Alaska Airlines, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, etc. There were pictures upon pictures of newspaper clips, signed autographs, posters and such on the wall. It was a different sight to see all this memorabilia and be in such a classy area of the stadium. We walked past the 'home plate suite' and enjoyed looking at the classy sign. We also enjoyed looking at the posters of the Jackie Robinson Scholarship Award posters where our school, The Evergreen State College, sponsors.
We finally got to our suite and we sat down in the 'deck' seats to watch batting practice. I took some pictures of the awesome view. We were pretty even with the score board. We then walked around, as we were the only ones there, and I took pictures. When we returned there were more people showing up. Soon it was a full party. We ordered food from the 'menu' where you could order a 'package' of pizza, salad, appetizers (popcorn/peanuts), drinks, etc. for about $300 to feed 8-10 people or you could order individual items like 50 rotissiere chicken wings for $75 or a bucket of peanuts for - I believe - $17.00 or was it $27... either way - wow! So we ordered pizza, salad, popcorn/peanuts (hey what is a baseball game without?!), beer, pop, chips and a 7 layered salad. I really enjoyed visiting with those that joined us:
Gary Strauss (and guest), Dave Janis (and his daughter), Claire Bonin (bicycle paper), Josh Hicks (bicycle paper), Barbara Culp (Exec. Director of BAW) and her husband Andy, Jill P and her son, Gannon (it was his 18th Birthday - what an awesome gift!!!), Cynthia Putnam and her guest, Susan Hiles and a couple more.
It was a lot of fun. The seats were plush and some rolled around. The suite was sweet. hee hee with a flat screen tv as well as each area of the 'deck' had a tv to view the game on as well. It had a 'island' and a buffet type area for serving food. It was pretty cool. We all had a blast sitting, talking, relaxing AND watching the shortest (from what Josh Hicks told me) game ever in Mariner's baseball. They won - in the 8th inning (if I remember right) with 1 run. Yep! 1 run!!! GO MARINER'S! (pictures to be posted later tonight)
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