Mariners Home Opener--

Today was the BEST DAY EVER!--Well one of them anyway. I took a personal day today, and Levi and I left the kids behind and headed west to Seattle for the Mariners first game of the season at Safeco against the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim (something like that). We were a little nervous this morning when it started snowing huge flakes around 9 am. But the trip over turned out to be uneventful--other than it was soooo quite. We actually got to have an adult conversation and didn't have to worry about being interrupted. It was so great.
We stopped in Ellensburg for lunch at McDonalds. The line for the drive-thru was long, so we decided to go inside. I volunteered to run in while Levi waited in the truck, I got his order and started to ask if there was anything else he wanted when all of the sudden he said, "I'll just go in with you." It had never occured to us that we could both go in. We were so used to one of us waiting in the truck with the kids. We both laughed and went inside to order.
It was pretty chilly when we got to the stadium, and they ended up closing the roof. At the start of opening ceremonies the announcer came over the loud speaker and said that the opening day of baseball was meant to be played on green grass under blue skies and they began opening the roof, and there was sunshine and blue skies. It was so amazing, I had to go buy a hat because the sun was so bright, and our seats were facing the sun.
It ended up being a really good game. Griffey got a hit, Silva actually pitched a pretty good game, the bullpen didn't blow the game and there were some good catches in the outfield. The Mariners struck first, scoring a run in the first inning. The Angels answered a couple of innings later. Then the M's got another run and once again the Angels answered. At the end of nine innings, it was tied 2-2, so we were headed into extra innings. The Angels were unable to score a run in their half but the Mariners did much better getting a runner on, and then the next batter bunted the ball just to move the runner along, but thanks to an Angel error on the throw to first, the runner was able to score. YEAH--the Mariners won 3-2!!! Levi and I bolted to try and beat a majority of traffic--we were successful in that, however, once we were in line to get out of the parking garage we had to wait for all of the pedestrians streaming out of the stadium and crossing the street. We finally made it on the way home.
We stopped in North Bend for a bite to eat and Levi asked if we should stop for gas. We had about a half tank, so I figured we'd be fine and I told him not to worry about it. A few miles away from our turn, the gas light came on and dinged at us. With about 18 miles to go, our distance to empty on the little doohicky on the truck said we had 24 miles. So I figured, we're gonna make it, no problem. Well that 24 miles quickly turned into 18, than 16, than 14 . . . and was going lower faster than the miles we were actually traveling. Levi and I just crossed our fingers and prayed the rest of the way home that we would make it and . . . we did--thank the Lord!!!