Chapter 18. Lets enjoy and intermission shall we.
So even though my updates have been with a how shall we say this....a little far between, i think it is time for a break in the action, all good plays have intermissions and acts, and it is time for ours...but wait that would mean this is a good TR...well dont all bad ones also have intermissions to allow people to leave without interupting the show. Okay since ALL have intermissions then this is ours.
Last week on labor day we had tickets to the cubs game. So we handed parker off to my parents who were taking him to a few of the days activities including a 3 hour parade in the town over...and good times at there house afterwards.
Candi and I were on our way, we enjoy parking around the park/museum area of chicago...so this trip we chose soldier field parking/or the bears stadium parking garage.
Upon exiting the garare we walked up to the stadium and i noticed that gate was open. See
for me that was an invite into said grounds. we ventured further into the stadium.
proof that we were atually there with the beautiful forground(cute girl i saw) and background(city) in the picture
we continued around to the side of the stadium that faces the lake, and right to the right of us, was the ramp that went down to the consession area.
i was very temped to go down the ramp because that would get me into the area of the stadium that i could go to the seats and get to the field, but candi held me back and said we pushed our luck far enough by walking around the stadium and how far we ventured in...
but to my defense we were in there a good 20 minutes and did not see anyone else so i could have gotten away with it, at least thats my thinking.
a nice statue between the stadium and the field museum.
this was on the other side of the field museum with the views of grant park and millenium park in the background.
as well as one of the boat harbors.
we walked through a good amount of grant park then ventured west a few blocks to hit the subway which would take us to the north side of the city and to the cubs stadium.
right before we went underground i saw this big eye looking at me.
we arrived to the stadium about 2.5 hours before the game and just took our time walking around the stadium seeing the sights and enjoying ourself...when we walked in, we saw a group of about 4 camera men and producers and people with boom mics and the such and continued on our way up the ramp to the middle level of seats...when the camera crew started to follow us and film these 2 guys talking. who were hot dog vendors.
we started speculating on what they were filming for. and came to the level we were seeking and stopped to talk to an older usher. he said they were filming a documentary about baseball stadium and jobs there...hmm sounded a little fishy to us
we asked the usher if it sounded a little like that show "undercover boss" where they do that sort. he was very shocked and goes yeah it does kinda sound like that show.
the guy who was doing the documentary even had the same goofy look as the other bosses thick beard that you could tell was just grown in. stupid looking black rim glasses and a baseball hat on.
he didnt turn around for me to get a good picture of him, but you can see him here.
he went on to tell us how thenew owners are very nice and they attend every game and are trying to turn the ballpark back to the good old days of family friendly and such, sounds like a good reason for one of the new owners to go "undercover"
It was a good "im just sayin" moment for sure.
here they are from our "original" seats filming
and just behind us you can see the sky line.
before the game started we got some food and since the stadium wasnt that full yet, we chose to move down to the lower part of the upper deck.
time for mister documentary man to the throw out the first pitch.
the view from our "new" seats.
during the whole game people would come and go all around us but we picked the right ones as the real owners of those seats never showed up so we were good to go.
we even had a great view of the press box for the 7th inning stretch.
the cubs won, witch is rare this season, but me and candi are still 100% on wins when we go...which is about 18 games for me and 7 or so for her.
when we got to my parents house for the cookout that night, my dad showed us that at the end of the game when he was watching the game, they were filming hte people behind us that had the W "win" flag and we were on TV for a short time, so that was exciting.
now fast forward to this weekend, and our annual chili cookoff that candi and i host. attendance was down this year as well as the number of chilis entered...normally we have about 40-50 people there, this year about 25 with only 6 chilis entered.
we have had between 8-13 chilis in the past, this year here were the 6 that were part of the competition.
the rules are simple, bring a chili, everyone tries them we vote you win.
who won third well, it was yours truly, i have placed most years, but never won that coveted title.
mine is normally a little spicy because thats how i like it, but it doesnt appeal to everyone there so that hurts me some.
the cookoff host giving the award to the 3rd place winner, which is one in the same.
2nd place was a tie straight down to the number of 1st 2nd and 3rd place votes so they had to share the award it was my mom and candis dad
the winner does get a cool trophy to proudly desplay in there house for 1 year until the next years cookoff rolls around. when they must bring it back and hand it over to the next winner...each year a new name is added to the trophy to commemorate the occasion and this trophy will be able to hold about 15 names on it, which at that time we will retire it to the 25th winner to keep, or get a bigger base attached to it and continue on.
this was our first back to back winner and it went to my brother in laws mom (which they are really close to us, and parker even calls them nana and papa) her husband is also my boss.
it is a really nice and big park where we have it...about40 acres total.
there is also a hug playground which keeps the kids nad parents happy.
and the only traffic that goes between them is the traffic for your party so that is good as well.
well thats about it, will be back to the disney updates next. hope you enjoyed.
Parker's first pair of ears. Cute videos of Chip and Dale dancing but the guy in the back of the second video was a hoot. I think he really though he was groovy. He tried to pick up the kid and make him dance but he wasn't having it.
thanks for joining in...and glad you like it.
I do call their kids "my grandkids". Sometimes I have to go back and explain when after talking about grandkids I mention that my oldest kid just turned 21 
) and got to Jordan announcing Parker's birth with a link to your Baby Fauntelroy report. Just spent the last couple hours reading through it. It was kinda funny reading all the guesses since I already knew how that part of the story would end! Sweet story for a sweet baby (little man) it will be nice to have all those memories written down when you get to the point where you can't seem to remember anything. Like me 
