Don't Stop Believin'

You want an amazing experience, go to a Dodger game with our kids, on free tickets. Barry got these free field tickets from the payroll company that did his commercials. We've never sat so close to the actual game before, it was like watching the game from inside the pants of a Dodger. We're used to being up so high, the field is down below like a video game, and we can reach up and touch the blimp floating overhead. But our kids are so excited about the simplest things - trying to dance and cheer so they can get on the big Dodger tv screen - wanting to try EVERY food in the snack bar before the game even starts - trying to catch a foul ball that flies in to the stands, wanting to touch the beach ball that the fans are batting around in the audience. We made two home-made Dodger shirts for Lilly and Nathan, and a homemade Dodger hat. Lilly wore a mitt, her hat, and her shirt and kept going down to the little cement wall 2 rows up that was the only thing separating us from the special dugout seats. Her curly hair sticking out, holding her mitt up, hoping to catch a ball, staying up way past her bedtime, Emma kept seeing this blonde lady down in the dugout seats and one of the ushers pointing at Lilly and talking about her. "They're gonna get her a ball," she kept saying. In between eating blue cotton candy, ice cream, pizza, Dodger Dogs, and peanuts, the actual sitting at a Dodger game is pretty boring. It's like waiting in line while sitting down. But waiting in line at Disneyland, vs the DMV. It's a time when you can be glad you have a family to be bored amongst - there is a fabric that you belong to, and everyone is so good looking. And for the most part, wonderful. By the end of the game, Lilly had gotten a ball from the dugout, Nathan and Emma had danced so much that they got on the big screen in front of 40,000 people, we had gotten to see the guy who sings the Journey song, "Don't Stop Believin'" - we did it all. Mostly we just got to sit together and not have to do anything but be a family. Have company.