Saturday's Baseball game at Taichung Stadium

Hi all,

Thursday night, we were lucky to get a call from Sandy (http://www.honeybeesspace.blogspot.com/) who invited us to go to the Canada versus South Africa Olympic Baseball Qualifying Game with her hubby Ryan, Ivo (4 yrs) and Burl (1yr).

Of course, we jumped at the offer, this being Ethan's first time to a sporting event of any kind. The weather was gorgeous if a little bit windy. Rosela and her son's Zer Zer (4yrs) and Pin Ju (4 months)also arrived to join in on the fun and of course we invited Samantha to come and share in our team spirit. It was an easy game for Canada and by the 5th inning, we were leading 5 to 0.

We sat right behind team Canada and I took Ethan up right behind the batter to get a closer look. Later Samantha did the same thing and one of the Canadian baseball players came over to shake Ethan's hand.

Here is Samantha and Ethan cheering for Team Canada!

Below are Sandy and Burl having a sweet moment, Ivo having a blast in his awesome green boots with monkeys and frogs on them and Burl and Ryan coming back from a walk. Don't they make a great family!

Here is Zer Zer with his mommy Rosela, Me with a crawling and walking Ethan.

Unfortunately, the experience was marred when a ball that was hit, was caught by an Olympic Travel Commissioner. He decided to throw the ball in our direction- with me holding Ethan and Sandy holding Burl. Sandy was unfortunately hit with the baseball on her forehead but the boys weren't hurt. However both of us were pretty pissed. Sandy was more in shock and reeling from the pain. We were all worried about her and the commissioner came down with a bag of ice for her forehead which by then had a nice little bump. He apologized several times and then had the nerve to tell Sandy, that he hopes this won't stop her from coming to future games! The nerve. He should have at least given her free tickets to the next game....grrrrrrr. After that, we all pretty much left the ballpark.

Sandy's feeling much better by the way... we are all thinking of you Sandy!

Luv Ethan and mommy