Thursday, March 16, 2006

We're in Florida for Spring Training



A dream of mine and my dad's was to head out to Vero Beach, Florida, Dodgertown USA. This year because of our job change and an opportunity to celebrate my dad finishing 42 days of radiation we headed out to spring training. We arrived on Tues and stayed in the mega Disney resort. The boys loved it and we went swimming, mini golfing and hung out one night in some camp ground and watched a movie with smores and a campfire. All in the Disney wonderful style. We even got a chance to watch the Dodgers play the Atlanta Braves (their spring home is at Disney).

Today we arrived in Vero Beach and headed immediately to Dodgertown USA. What a place with tons of history. The downside of baseball today is that I hardly even recognized the players' names. I long for the day when I was a kid and Garvey, Lopes, Russell, Cey, Baker and others played for the Dodgers for years. But it was a great day. I caught a foul ball in batting practice, Jonathan and Benjamin each got a ball from players. Tomorrow night we're catching a night game and the boys are hoping for a free bat from a player. We'll see. Warm weather, Dodger dogs and peanuts. All of it is making memories.

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2 comments:

Ryan said...

Nice. You lucky dog.

Anonymous said...

Steve looks like you guys had a great time. I'm jealous! yeah i agree with you about teams changing so much and so often that it makes it tough to follow. But its still a great game and its awesome that your boys got to enjoy the day, they'll forever remember this! -Bobby Rainbolt