Take me out to the ball game

The hubby and I celebrated spring break by taking in two games.

The first game (my first baseball experience ever!) was a result of winning a Salty Senorita (http://saltysenorita.com/) give away.  I told the world that one of my favorite ways to relax was listening to Salty's amazing playlist and munching on their out-of-this-world avacado and steak salad.  We were given too tickets to a Rockies games with parking voucher.  These tickets were close...I mean - we nearly caught a ball - close.

Then a few days later, I got tickets for the hubby to a Kansas City Royals game.  He is from KCMO and wanted to see his hometown team play.  They won the game we went to, but I'm told this is kind of rare. ;)

Flogging Molly at Tempe Beach Park

I know, I know.  I usually try to come up with interesting or at least witty titles for my posts.  That said, I am still to impressed with the show that Flogging Molly put on for St. Paddy's Day - that if you were there, you would think that "Flogging Molly at Tempe Beach Park" was interesting.  (If you weren't there, I am told that they come every year...and you should seriously consider making it a priority next year.)

Okay...Okay...enough with the intro. I'll tell you about St. Paddy's Day in Tempe. 

The hubby and I rode the free Orbit bus down to Mill to pick up our tickets from will call early in the afternoon.  It was the first time that I had taken advantage of the free ride down to mill, and I was impressed with the cleanliness of the buses.  Finding out that the concert didn't start until a lot later that night, we decided that a nap was in order.

Fast forward to 7pm.

We took the bus back down to mill, and decided to have dinner before the show.  Since it was St. Patrick's Day and there were so many people on Mill, we knew that there would be a killer wait pretty much anywhere we picked.  A little off Mill we saw Slices Pizza (http://slicespizzajoint.com/) and had a great dinner.  You can't beat pizza and a drink for a little under 5 bucks.  I really like thin crust New York style pizza, so I was in heaven.

Then on to the concert. 


I love Flogging Molly and have since my sister introduced me to them a million years ago.  This was the first time that I got to see them in concert.  It was worth the wait.  I danced and danced to all of my favorites and generally had an amazing time.  I can't wait to see them again (after teaching hubby a few more songs).

Turn Left!

Busy, Busy Weekend

Wow! I think I need a weekend to recover from this weekend. 

We have tentative plans to leave the state in January, so we made a renewed commitment to see and do as much of the local flavor as possible—it wasn’t like we were spending every weekend at home as it was.

Anyone who reads even half-way closely knows that John is here to go to school for the Army.  This means that he can get tickets to certain events though a service called Vet Tickets. (If you are active duty or a veteran, we highly recommend this site!)  The biggest thing that it allows us to do is afford to see some of the events around town on a teacher’s salary.  This great site allowed us to jam pack a weekend…

I decided that money was money, and being a teacher I don’t make a ton of it – so I decided to teach AIMS boot camp for half a day each Saturday morning for six weeks.  This Saturday was the first session. It was actually a really enjoyable day with the “babies”, and I’m looking forward to seeing if their scores go up after working for 6 Saturdays.

We had tickets to the Coyotes NHL game Saturday night, and I have to admit that I was really looking forward to seeing the game.  I love hockey – ok…I love a good fight – and that game had a hum dinger!  I also just really like the area around the Jobing.com arena.  We didn’t decide to eat there this time, but it is really fun to walk around. 

We decided to have dinner at a place I’ve seen near my school and read reviews about in the paper.  The Barrio Café on

Thomas/16^th Street

came highly recommended.  We have been looking for amazing Mexican food since we moved to AZ; I’m sad to say that we are still looking.  The food was really good, but it wasn’t amazing.  It was also expensive to be in a restaurant that is located in a “depressed” area of Central Phoenix.  Not exactly the wrong side of the tracks, but I was still glad that the car has an alarm on it.  I ordered pasole soup (something my students told me to try) and it was the highlight of my meal.  If I go back, I will definitely be trying it again.

Part 2 – of busy, busy weekend will be the NASCAR race.