{"id":280,"date":"2007-06-29T02:06:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-29T06:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/?p=280"},"modified":"2007-06-29T02:06:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-29T06:06:00","slug":"baseball-is-very-niiiice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/2007\/06\/29\/baseball-is-very-niiiice\/","title":{"rendered":"Baseball is very niiiice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back in Great Falls today and Charlotte&#8217;s house was a gathering point for a multitude of people coming for the backyard wedding tomorrow. Charlotte has a huge family and so several of her brothers and sisters and assorted spouses met up here and at around 6:30pm we all headed for the stadium to watch the Great Falls White Sox take on the Billings Mustangs in the first of a three-game series. <\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0027-787760.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0027-787757.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gary had reserved the stadium&#8217;s new MVP section for us right behind the visiting team&#8217;s dugout so we got to heckle at close range. I dug watching the game from that area. We got a cool free baseball cap and program and some food and drinks and had a great view of the game and accompanying thunderstorm.<\/p>\n<p>The game went on for around 15 innings I believe. We gave up and left after the 14th though because everyone was pretty knackered and tomorrow&#8217;s a big day \ud83d\ude42 But the Sox prevailed and all in all a good time was had.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a few more shots of the fam watching the game:<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0015-711782.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0015-711777.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>From right to left: Swi (Gary&#8217;s best friend), Tom, Jo, Gary and Swi&#8217;s wife Ann (turned away taking a pic of her own)<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0036-778766.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0036-778761.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>Gary and Swi watch the game intently \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0035-733295.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0035-733290.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>Shannon poses in the cool hat.<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0024-781296.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/uploaded_images\/IMAG0024-781292.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><br \/>The Bride and Groom \ud83d\ude42 I&#8217;m not sure who the other peeps are as of right now but I think they&#8217;re related to Charlotte.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re back in Great Falls today and Charlotte&#8217;s house was a gathering point for a multitude of people coming for the backyard wedding tomorrow. Charlotte has a huge family and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ukmelia.com\/ridiculousthoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}