"Let's go D-backs!"

The boys' first baseball game!  We went to the AZ Diamondback's game during our time in Phoenix (Spring Break - April 4).  Here's the ballpark in the city.  It took us about 45 min to get to it from the house:

Wow, AZ Diamondbacks is already celebrating it's 20th anniversary!

I am glad to see that this ball maze thing is still operational! I think my last time here was probably back in 1999???  And Graham and Charlie could have been here for hours!

A quick photo op with Graham and Charlie's cousins visiting from Minnesota.  Caden turned 7 years old in February (in red, far right) and Michael is 10 years old.  Look how much taller Caden is compared to Graham!

Found our seats and thanks to our HVAC service guy, we found out that these were available for $9.87 in support of the radio station 98.7FM.  What a deal!

The things I love about this ballpark/stadium is the roof is closed today.  It is in the mid 90s this afternoon and it is nice and cool in here with the A/C blasting.  Not sweat watching this baseball game today :-)

Charlie is slowly "studying" the name and faces of the players:

I definitely remember Randy Johnson - one of Dbacks' best pitcher back in the day.  Can't believe how much baseball I used to actually watch before vs. now.  I have no idea who this other guy is on the front page. Guess I need to "study" as well :-)

All day Charlie has been wanting an Icee!!!  That and we also had some churros.  There was a particular guy that would call out:
"Churrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrros!".
No joke.  He could really rrrrrrrrrrroll his R's!!!!

We got past the 7th inning stretch.  Graham is starting to lose interest...!

There weren't a lot of hits going on:

It did get a little bit exciting at the 9th inning but it was a SWEEP by the D-backs!!!

As if the baseball game was not enough, I decided to take the Bobby and the boys to hike Squaw Peak.  Oops... maybe not such a good idea?

There is Squaw Peak in the backdrop. Actually it was renamed in 2008 to "Piestewa Peak" in honor of Lori Piestewa who died serving in the Iraq conflict.

Wakie wakie!!! Off we go! The trail goes up 1,208 ft in 1.2 miles.  Definitely a good workout!  I used to hike this quite a bit when I was living/working in Phoenix (1999-2004):

Time to take for a break:

And another break.  The boys managed to find some shade:

It is quite the view and we are not even halfway up yet:

Graham and Daddy has abandoned me and Charlie.  We hike for another 10 minutes to perhaps the halfway point.  Charlie is SO pretending to be super tired in this photo! Quite convincing!!!

Okay, okay... we head down.  On the way down, I notice the same guy that had gone down just not too long ago going back up!  And also notice a mom carrying a baby on her back going up! Totally impressed!!!

Once we are all piled up in the car again, we head out to one of our favorite restaurants for dinner by the Biltmore.  Nothing better but to end the day with some yummy food and desserts :-D