It was a beautiful spring day, the taxes were done, so we went to the ball game. Along the way we saw this dead bird and then we saw the park looming larger as this woman sold us our tickets and we went to see batting practice (after a fashion) while Ben enjoyed his hot dog and the cotton candy man was passing by as batting practice continued to amuse me in this self portrait while Boomer took the field above the dugout and the rules were set as I captured a few stadium shots before Ben returned with some cracker jack (tradition and all) and ice cream (yet another tradition) as we watched the game progress even as the bat race and the race in balls were being set up to distract us from a bad ball game. On the way out, we watched this picture being taken before Ben sat with the All Stars