Postseason Baseball!!!

The Brewers are kicking butt in the playoffs, and we were so glad we could go to a game (even though they lost that one)! Heather & John got tickets through a lottery and John offered them to Mara and I, and since Rohan is still a "lap child" he was able to come too. The game was great for the D-Backs, and the crowd of 48,312 went nuts for a grand slam they hit...it was crazy! Rohan had a blast eating popcorn from his glove and chowing on some cotton candy. Around the 7th inning it was out of hand so we went to the kids play area so he could run off some of his sugar high. Friday the Brewers & D-Backs faced off for Game 5 and I skipped out of work a little early with some friends and watched 9 1/2 inning of the 10 inning game before I had to leave to go get Rohan. Luckily John DVR'd the game and replayed the final at-bat to send the Brewers to the NLCS against St. Louis. Rohan had a blast hanging out with Heather, John, Grandma Bacon, Great-Grandma, and Krista. They hit up parks, and Rohan even got a Ryan Braun #8 shirt from Grandma...his new favorite shirt! After I picked up Rohan we met up with friends at La Condesa Gourmet Taco Shop for our friend Sean's birthday. Mara had to work late, but after dinner she was able to meet up with us and we all walked around First Friday and checked out some art and crafts from local vendors. It's not super stoller friendly, but very fun non-the-less. Saturday Mara had to work in the morning so Rohan and I took the oppurtunity to hit up 2 parks before she got home. Before we could get him a nap we hit up the rock gym and grabbed some awesome Thai Tom Ka Gai soup from Thai House...best we've had! After the gym we got a call from one of Mara's mentors from her rotations and he remembered about 2 years ago, Mara was an active person and offered up his bike trailer for us tp pull Rohan! We drove out to Avondale and picked it up, and even got Rohan to play some hockey with his kids. It was great to meet him and his family. Since we were out that far, we swung over to Greg & Nico's for a quick visit. As busy as they/we are, it's hard to get together these days! After there we had some time to kill before supper so we took Rohan to yet another park (3rd of the day), this time we went to the Margaret T. Hance Park near downtown. Rohan had a blast running around and even found some friends to ride an alligotor toy with. Rohan had a funny thing happen too. He walked up to some random kid and tried playing with him by kicking sand at him...the kid was not amused and came running after Rohan with a cup of sand. Rohan took off running (and crying). He was able to out run the older boy so that's something...:) We met the family at the AZ Center by TGen at Sam's Cafe for a great meal and some nice relaxing convo. They even made fresh guacomole at our table...which tasted great! Sunday we took advantage of the day and got the bikes and trailer ready for the maiden voyage...problem was we had 2 flats...one on the trailer and one on my bike...so after an early trip to WalMart and some greasy hands, we were ready to go! We ended up going for about 7mi around our neightborhood and out to a park before ending up at Matador Coffee for some well deserved coffee! :) After that Mara and Rohan ran to IKEA and I got some work done in the garage making space for the bike trailer and watching some more Brewer baseball. Mara found a desk for some of her dictations and other things she has to do/look-up after work so we got that set up and hopefully start organizing our front room around a bit. After the game we got some food ready for Jeanette, and the family who came over, and bought Spinato's pizza, to watch the Packer game. It was great to entertain since we haven't had much of that yet, and also great to show the family around the house since they had not seen it yet. It was fun to relax and catch up after such a long, fun weekend! Hope everyone got a chance to enjoy the Fall weather! It's been GORGEOUS here!!!!