First - for those of you who read the posts below, please note Amy has made some updates to the Black Eyed Peas post... if you feel like you may have missed something... (there is also a new chance to win points... so maybe give it a read if you haven't already...or you want points...)
So, we forgot to bring the camera to the April 16th M's game vs Detroit. It was Ken Griffey Jr Throwback bobble head night and we stood in line forever to get the bobble heads. Then went to Elysian for drinks and Apps with Wil Lavaris and Laura. The game was sweet. Felix was dealing and got the Win with 9 K's and we scored 11 runs without a HR. Always nice to see a win, final score 11-3.
The next day was Paul Somerstein's bachelor party. Anthony couldn't go to of all of it but went to the morning part where they played dodgeball on trampolines at Sky High sports. Walked away almost injury free...just a few knee burns.
Then that night we celebrated Papa's 80th birthday at the Famularo's house. Samara and Jere were there too. We ate a ton of app's and then a super gourmet dinner. It was awesome! Hope everyone enjoyed it as much as we did. And seriously those super funny colored green olives and some of those cheeses were amazing. And the dill salmon and mashed potatoes rocked as well. And who doesn't like finishing the night with pineapple upside down cake?
Last week, was the week of the Kitties and the Vet. Sark had a major sneezing attack that continued from Thursday through the weekend in spurts. Since he seemed sick we took him to the vet and got him on a supplement, pills and eye ointment twice a day for 14 days. Ugg. Then upon returning home from work on Thursday we saw a speaker grill from one of our mounted speakers laying on the ground. Amy went to put it back on the speaker and noticed some scratch marks. When she came downstairs, she noticed Mute was limping. So we decided no yoga for the night, grabbed both kitties and went back to the vet. The vet gave her a short acting anti-infammatory shot and sent her back home. Fortunately she is much better and doesn't need painful X-rays. Ugh!
Then Friday we went over to dinner at Lana and Andrew Thomason's new apartment in Issaquah. Needless to say we were filled with delicious food (caesar salad, manicotti, delicious crescent rolls, red wine and amazing ice cream sandwiches). We watched the Mariners lose on a walk off HR and then watched the Hurt Locker. (OVERRATED!) OK, that catches everyone up on everything. We will be better about posting more often. Sorry. Peace.
Sunday, April 25, 2010
Opening Day at Safeco Field 2010
Anthony went to Opening Day at Safeco with Michael, Jeremy and Taylor. 
The starting lineup looked a bit new....
The roof was closed as it was a bit rainy out.
The roof opened though as we got to see baseball played the way it should be: Outside!
How cool is it that Randy Johnson threw out the first pitch?
Dan Wilson caught the first pitch.
Then we saw Jay Buhner, Edgar Martinez and Ken Griffey Jr join them. These were the 5 players who made baseball in Seattle thrive starting in 1995.
Hyphen pitched decent overall, but he walked a bunch of guys.
The loss wasn't his fault as we only managed 2 hits and got shutout.
On the way out of the stadium, Jeremy saw Vern Fonk.
It should be noted that Amy 100% anti Vern Fonk and his ugly commercials that make her want to barf. This anti-vern-fonk thing is so strong that she actually considered NOT buying our current home due to its close proximity to a Vern Fonk location... Thus it should be obvious that she is protesting this photo being on our blog.
The starting lineup looked a bit new....
The roof was closed as it was a bit rainy out.
The roof opened though as we got to see baseball played the way it should be: Outside!
How cool is it that Randy Johnson threw out the first pitch?
Dan Wilson caught the first pitch.
Then we saw Jay Buhner, Edgar Martinez and Ken Griffey Jr join them. These were the 5 players who made baseball in Seattle thrive starting in 1995.
Hyphen pitched decent overall, but he walked a bunch of guys.
The loss wasn't his fault as we only managed 2 hits and got shutout.
On the way out of the stadium, Jeremy saw Vern Fonk.It should be noted that Amy 100% anti Vern Fonk and his ugly commercials that make her want to barf. This anti-vern-fonk thing is so strong that she actually considered NOT buying our current home due to its close proximity to a Vern Fonk location... Thus it should be obvious that she is protesting this photo being on our blog.
Black Eyed Peas Concert at Tacoma Dome
So driving to the Tacoma Dome was interesting... to say the least. Traffic at the main exit was horrible, worse than that really. Words cannot express. People kept cheating and cutting others off. This was one of the offenders (below). Amy was trying to stay Zen, but let just a LITTLE too much space between her and the bumper she was riding... so these guys cut in. Stupid people. They eventually let another car in... but let's just say Amy went a little bit bat crazy and ultimately was singlehandedly responsible for keeping at least 3 cars from jumping the line. First she looked at the passenger in the car that was trying to get in front of her, she inched forward, made eye contact with the passenger and gave the most stern look possible and said, "NO". The passenger thought that she got the message, laughed a bit, because let's face it, that was funny, and convinced her driver to continue on to the next exit. Then Amy resorted to leaning out her window and SCREAMING at some other fools who she actually SCARED enough to make them take the next exit as well. Had we known there was a next exit, we would have taken it fo sho, but what the Tacoma Dome failed to communicate beforehand was how much they suck. Oh yeah, also the parking situation at the Tacoma Dome sucks a lot. They wave you in and have you wait in line after line, tell you to here, go there, then you discover ALL the lots are FULL. The people working there are idiots. We finally found a spot in a lot a little ways away, but we could have saved time had we done that in the first place. A holes. 
The opening acts were LMFAO (who we missed entirely due to traffic and a holes) and Ludacris.
Ludacris sorta blows... Amy always thought she liked him, but this performance was weak sauce. Suppose it could have just been the Tacoma Dome... Also, see below, Luda's dancers. Umm... hello? Maybe we should be bigger fans of Ludacris for hiring unattractive dancers - who says you have to be pretty to shake your thang all up on the stage? Hard to tell from here, and sure, they are doing their thing, but Amy was not a fan. She stated that dancers like that should wear heels so they have a chance of looking like ladies, not like Jell-o Jigglers up on stage. Cuz that's about all they did. Jiggled a lot. Bleck.
Mom and Kim Goldfarb went to the show with us too. We had a lot of fun. Not a flattering photo of Debbie below, shhh, don't tell her this is on here or she'll make us take it down...
The Black Eyed Peas came on and put on a heck of a show. Hard to see from the photo below, but they came up through the floor of the stage with some smoke and stuff if we remember right, it was entertaining to say the least.
The show was weird during some parts. Interesting costumes, lights, fire, etc. Below are the robots you may have seen at the Grammys...
Fergie must be the head of the crazy costume department. Look at those heels. Hard to tell from the picture, but she wore a lot of ugly chunky heeled shoes... lots of tight clothes of course, and different hair styles too. She looks kinda like the scary lady from Ghostbusters below...
Oh look! It's all the Peas together! 5 points if you know their names without google-ing it... doubt we'll be giving any points away... so... let's make it 50 points!!
This outfit looked like a weird leotard. Again, hard to see below... but it was pretty crazy. 10 times zoom REALLY should be enough, but it's not...
As predicted, something sorta flew over the stage... (oh, yeah, sorta hard to see again... but...)dude is on a motorcycle and riding around in the air suspended from the Tacoma Dome ceiling. Sorta cool if you like that kinda thing...
OK - man, if only the picture did it justice. This was Fergie Ferg's coolest outfit. The one Amy would wear if she was daring enough. It's SO hard to see here, and after scouring the net we could find no photos of the detail, but this dress and heels are not to be believed. Spikes coming out of the hips, the chest, shoulders too maybe, and the back of the heels... TOO flipping cool! It must have weighed a ton too!
Fergie was..... yep, you guessed it...
Ludacris came back for 1 song to sing with Fergie. G...g... L...l...A... a....M... m.. O...o... R...r... OUS! Flyin' first class, up in the sky, drankin' Champange, livin' life in the fast lane... Yeah, this was by FAR Amy's fave part of the show, she's a huge closet Fergie fan... (what up home girl!! Rock that dress and spike heel!)
The main B.E.P. dude (that's what Anthony calls him, Amy, on the other hand, as well as most of the rest of the world know the REAL name the artist goes by... you know, cuz he's hella famus like that. She'd spell it out for you, but she's not about to give away those 50 points to just any cheater...) put on a big show for us mid concert. He comes out in this wicket robot gear, crazy mask and stuff, then goes to the end of the stage. Stage starts to come up off the ground and is we-don't-know-how-many feet up in the air, crazy high... then he starts spinning records together, all these hit songs from the last couple decades, it was like a dance club, which was his goal. Amy thinks he was elaborating on their new CD title "The E.N.D" which means "The Energy Never Dies" so he was paying tribute to all the music that's come before... but who knows... The DJ stage rotated in the air while he played all types of songs to get the crowd into the show.
Whoa there Fergie, wtf is that? Who wears short shorts? Not this girl, she wears undies on the outside...
We had a pretty good time, considering we were in Tacoma. The Tacoma dome is not a good place to see a show. Billy Joel tried to warn us earlier this year... but we just didn't listen to you, did we, Billy!?
They turned out all of the lights and people held up their cell phones, lighters, etc. This picture does not do it justice.
Crazy stuff...
Crazy outfit...
seriously, what are those metal pieces coming out of her clothes (hard to see but there are metal rods sticking up and out of her hip line pointed out and towards her face... umm, hello?). Fergie is one weird Bia.
Hella confetti. Fo' Realz'. That was really fun :)
The opening acts were LMFAO (who we missed entirely due to traffic and a holes) and Ludacris.
Ludacris sorta blows... Amy always thought she liked him, but this performance was weak sauce. Suppose it could have just been the Tacoma Dome... Also, see below, Luda's dancers. Umm... hello? Maybe we should be bigger fans of Ludacris for hiring unattractive dancers - who says you have to be pretty to shake your thang all up on the stage? Hard to tell from here, and sure, they are doing their thing, but Amy was not a fan. She stated that dancers like that should wear heels so they have a chance of looking like ladies, not like Jell-o Jigglers up on stage. Cuz that's about all they did. Jiggled a lot. Bleck.
Mom and Kim Goldfarb went to the show with us too. We had a lot of fun. Not a flattering photo of Debbie below, shhh, don't tell her this is on here or she'll make us take it down...
The Black Eyed Peas came on and put on a heck of a show. Hard to see from the photo below, but they came up through the floor of the stage with some smoke and stuff if we remember right, it was entertaining to say the least.
The show was weird during some parts. Interesting costumes, lights, fire, etc. Below are the robots you may have seen at the Grammys...
Fergie must be the head of the crazy costume department. Look at those heels. Hard to tell from the picture, but she wore a lot of ugly chunky heeled shoes... lots of tight clothes of course, and different hair styles too. She looks kinda like the scary lady from Ghostbusters below...
Oh look! It's all the Peas together! 5 points if you know their names without google-ing it... doubt we'll be giving any points away... so... let's make it 50 points!!
This outfit looked like a weird leotard. Again, hard to see below... but it was pretty crazy. 10 times zoom REALLY should be enough, but it's not...
As predicted, something sorta flew over the stage... (oh, yeah, sorta hard to see again... but...)dude is on a motorcycle and riding around in the air suspended from the Tacoma Dome ceiling. Sorta cool if you like that kinda thing...
OK - man, if only the picture did it justice. This was Fergie Ferg's coolest outfit. The one Amy would wear if she was daring enough. It's SO hard to see here, and after scouring the net we could find no photos of the detail, but this dress and heels are not to be believed. Spikes coming out of the hips, the chest, shoulders too maybe, and the back of the heels... TOO flipping cool! It must have weighed a ton too!
Fergie was..... yep, you guessed it...
Ludacris came back for 1 song to sing with Fergie. G...g... L...l...A... a....M... m.. O...o... R...r... OUS! Flyin' first class, up in the sky, drankin' Champange, livin' life in the fast lane... Yeah, this was by FAR Amy's fave part of the show, she's a huge closet Fergie fan... (what up home girl!! Rock that dress and spike heel!)
The main B.E.P. dude (that's what Anthony calls him, Amy, on the other hand, as well as most of the rest of the world know the REAL name the artist goes by... you know, cuz he's hella famus like that. She'd spell it out for you, but she's not about to give away those 50 points to just any cheater...) put on a big show for us mid concert. He comes out in this wicket robot gear, crazy mask and stuff, then goes to the end of the stage. Stage starts to come up off the ground and is we-don't-know-how-many feet up in the air, crazy high... then he starts spinning records together, all these hit songs from the last couple decades, it was like a dance club, which was his goal. Amy thinks he was elaborating on their new CD title "The E.N.D" which means "The Energy Never Dies" so he was paying tribute to all the music that's come before... but who knows... The DJ stage rotated in the air while he played all types of songs to get the crowd into the show.
Whoa there Fergie, wtf is that? Who wears short shorts? Not this girl, she wears undies on the outside...
We had a pretty good time, considering we were in Tacoma. The Tacoma dome is not a good place to see a show. Billy Joel tried to warn us earlier this year... but we just didn't listen to you, did we, Billy!?
They turned out all of the lights and people held up their cell phones, lighters, etc. This picture does not do it justice. 
Crazy stuff...
Crazy outfit...
seriously, what are those metal pieces coming out of her clothes (hard to see but there are metal rods sticking up and out of her hip line pointed out and towards her face... umm, hello?). Fergie is one weird Bia.
Hella confetti. Fo' Realz'. That was really fun :)
Oh, and if you were wondering. This show was put on in Tacoma. Near Seattle. The pacific northwest if you will. And the Peas wanted you to know they knew that. Seriously. Ok, most artists will put on a show and maybe ONCE or TWICE during the performance say something like, "What's up Tacoma?" or "Last time I performed in Seattle I was in this little dive bar, and because of amazing fans like you I'm headlining at the Key!!" Something like that... but no, the Peas must have encorporated the words "Tacoma" and "Seattle" over 25 times... maybe 50 times... it was REALLY OOC. Out Of Control yo! We know where we are, you know where we are, and it's hard to forget when you are in the Tacoma Dome cuz it's THAT bad... so yeah, enough with the shout outs!
What's up TACOMAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Monday, April 19, 2010
Anthony: another stadium! SF
So after all of the work done on this trip, one last stop at AT&T Park was needed. 
The stadium is awesome. It is right against the water. The kayakers were out before the game to try and catch some batting practice home runs.
How many stadiums have a view of the water?
The coke bottle is actually a slide for kids and drunken adults.
It was absolutely gorgeous and a perfect day for baseball. It was the Giants Home Opener, so there were plenty of pre-game activities.
The coolest part about the park is that there are tons of little features that are only seen here For example the Giants 500 HR club.
They released a ton of balloons before the game. This makes Amy mad.
Tim Lincecum was introduced to a loud ovation. Always great to see a UW Alum.
Another cool thing was that Jerry Rice threw out the first pitch and he threw it to Steve Young. After the first pitch, Rice went out for a pass and Young threw a baseball TD to him. It was very cool.
No one has hit the glove yet and 501 feet is a long way to hit a ball....someday.
The splash hits meter keeps track of Home runs that land in the water. Most of these belong to Barry Bonds.
To the left of the Comcast sign is a plaque where Bonds record breaking 756th HR hit.
Below is Pedro Sandoval.
His nickname is Kung Fu Panda.
Wholly cow, it is Potatoes O'Flaherty. He is on the Braves now.
I had to leave the game a bit early to catch my flight home, but I will be back.
The stadium is awesome. It is right against the water. The kayakers were out before the game to try and catch some batting practice home runs.
How many stadiums have a view of the water? 
The coke bottle is actually a slide for kids and drunken adults.
It was absolutely gorgeous and a perfect day for baseball. It was the Giants Home Opener, so there were plenty of pre-game activities.
The coolest part about the park is that there are tons of little features that are only seen here For example the Giants 500 HR club.
They released a ton of balloons before the game. This makes Amy mad. 
Tim Lincecum was introduced to a loud ovation. Always great to see a UW Alum.
Another cool thing was that Jerry Rice threw out the first pitch and he threw it to Steve Young. After the first pitch, Rice went out for a pass and Young threw a baseball TD to him. It was very cool.
No one has hit the glove yet and 501 feet is a long way to hit a ball....someday.
The splash hits meter keeps track of Home runs that land in the water. Most of these belong to Barry Bonds.
To the left of the Comcast sign is a plaque where Bonds record breaking 756th HR hit.
Below is Pedro Sandoval. 
His nickname is Kung Fu Panda. 
Wholly cow, it is Potatoes O'Flaherty. He is on the Braves now. 
I had to leave the game a bit early to catch my flight home, but I will be back.
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