Go Nuts!

Last night we attended a Wichita Wingnuts baseball game, along with a 7000+ sell-out crowd! What a great night...a clear, cool evening, $1 sodas and beers, a double-header (due to the rain-out from the evening before), and FREE tickets! My dad and Randy got in line to buy tickets only to have a guy approach us asking if our family needed tickets. Being the skeptical Californians that we are, we thought he was trying to scalp 'em or somethin'. But it's double-A ball, and we're in Kansas. He'd just "grabbed a bunch to come with a group of friends and not that many of 'em showed up". We sat about 15 rows behind the catcher to watch the Wingnuts win their first game 3-2 (we caught the last 3 innings) and the second game 6-0!

We're still having a great time doing lots of "Kansas" things, like... playing in the summer rain and watching lightning storms, eating lunch at The Mustard Seed, a little coffee shop/bakery where Grandma Janice works, riding the tractor with Grandpa, playing with Bella, stayin' cool in the backyard pool, picking and shucking corn for dinner, and visiting the Hutchinson Zoo. This is a very small zoo. But the entrance was free and it is full of animals native to the Kansas plains, such as prairie dogs, bobcat, fox, badger, beaver, river otters, porcupines, raccoons, black-footed ferret, and a number of birds and reptiles. There was a also a fossil digging pit that the kids really enjoyed, a Holstein cow replica in a little barn the kids could milk, and a petting zoo with a llama, pony, pot-bellied pig, rabbits, and this big, Brahman bull. He did NOT want Randy or Isaac to pet him (they were both wearing red, interesting) but he loved to be scratched by me or my dad.

It's been a great visit so far and we're looking forward to much more!