The last game of the season

It was the last game of the season. Possibly Junior's last game of his career. He got a standing 'O' each time he batted. And again after his last bat- for a long time. It was pretty cool, as he was clearly the heart of the Mariners this year. And after last year, when they had a losing season, and some of them hated one another, this year it was clear that they were all having a lot of fun, and winning, out there. Alas, they didn't win enough to go to the playoffs, but it was way more fun this year, for everyone.
After the game ended- those are all Mariners, staff and ground crew. The M's all mad ethe rounds of the stadium throwing out t-shirts, balls (dan got one- an unsigned game ball from Junior's last game, maybe) hats and other Ms gear to the crowd.


Kat likes her 'aid. That's lemonade to the rest of us. Mostly one straw at a time. Woe to the people around us who she showers with lemonade when extracting the straw over and over and over....

The tree hugger kid. She would run from one tree to another and hug it. Then she was picking up a pebble at the base of each tree and..I don't know, try to find somewhere in the bark to insert it?

Then the game evolved to taking pebbles from one tree to the next and on and on...I'm sure that it would have made perfect sense to any other two year old...