Bandits

We are so excited to have Maggie here with us for most of June. She is our youngest daughter, still in college that is feeling a little homeless since we moved up here. She drove the 13 hours by herself this past Thursday. Here we are cooking in the new kitchen. Once I get every thing done in the kitchen and cleaned up a bit, I will post more pictures.

The other day I was looking at the Hy-Vee sale flyer when I noticed they were giving out 200 free tickets to the Quad Cities River Bandits baseball game. Hy-Vee is a grocery store where there is a helpful smile in every aisle.

Maggie and I grabbed three tickets and looked forward to going to the game. Mike thinks they are single A minor league. I guess that means they are very young players high school and college age.
We parked our car and headed to the entrance of John O'Donnell stadium which is now called Modern Woodman Park. I will continue to call it John O'Donnell because I like the way it rolls off my tongue when I say it fast. Plus, that was the name of it when I went to games with my Dad.
As we were walking to the entrance a train came along and we had to wait for it to go by before we could get to the stadium. It was a very long train.

Finally the train had gone by and we headed in. Behind us is the Centennial Bridge which crosses the Mississippi. 

The Mississippi does flood and after many floods in the stadium, they built a wall to prevent the water from going in.

Last night the water was only over the back sidewalk.

Before we ordered a beer, we decided to go on the ferris wheel. 

We then enjoyed the game.  

The River Bandits won with a big lead, 14 to 5. We decided to walk around the ball park before heading home. We found the horses were too tired to carry people in circles.

The view is beautiful.

We had so much fun we will probably go again when Maggie's boyfriend, Chase is in town.