Trenton Thunder revisited

On Sunday John, Jill, the kiddos, my parents and I all went to a Trenton Thunder game to celebrate Jill's birthday and enjoy a nice summer day. I love minor league baseball for all of its quirkiness. The Thunder is known for having a Bat Dog named "Chase, that Golden Thunder". In the first couple innings he runs out to retrieve the bats. Here he is in action:

They also have one of the goofiest mascots I've ever seen. I guess it's hard to create a personification of Thunder, but here he is:

And the boys LOVED him! He goes by Boomer and Emmy kept asking "Where's Boomer?" At one point he and I took a walk to try and find him and when he finally came into our section everyone got very excited to see him so close.

We sat in Section E, in the front row and when I asked Emmy "What is E for?" he said "E is for Emerson!" and pointed to himself. It was pretty cute.

We ended up with 4 seats in the front row and 4 seats in the second row and it worked out really well. Here is Jill and Dad and Mom enjoying the game. Dad busted out the Yankees hat since the Thunder is the AA affiliate of the Yankees.

Nathaniel busted out the Yankees hat because he's actually a Yankees fan. Here's me with the boys:

Sebastian, and all the boys, really loved it when the cotton candy vendor came around. This was already after having hot dogs, chips, lemonade, dippin' dots and funnel cake, so we just got one to share with our whole crew.

And the boys had to get some sort of Thunder gear, so they all got these foam hands (and Emmy got a hat because it turned out to be pretty sunny after a cloudy start to the day). You can kind of see John, Jill, and Mom & Dad in the background here.

After the game we went back to my house and enjoyed some pizza and birthday cake at the picnic table in the backyard. It was really a great day! Happy Birthday, Jill!