Day 1 in Atlanta

We just got back from the "big city" and the kids are taking a nap, so I thought I would post a few pictures from our visit to Turner Field. It was quite exciting and Trent LOVED IT! We decided that we wouldn't rush around this morning to get out, so by the time we left it was close to 10:30. After dealing with Atlanta traffic it was about 11:15 when we arrived at the stadium. The next tour of the field was 12:00, so we signed up and took some time to few the exibits in the museum while we waited. Here's a picture of the kids at the museum:



During our tour of the stadium we started at the very top and moved down. It started at the Sky Box where the big Coke bottle sits with the smaller Coke bottle canons on either side. This is the Coke bottle that the fireworks shoot out of whenever the Braves win or a player hits a home run. This picture is of Trent and Ella sitting in the giant size Coke chairs overlooking the city of Atlanta (sorry it's sideways, I forgot to reformat it before posting):

We then made our way down to the Lexus level (You guessed it! This entire seating level is sponsored by the Lexus car company and there are 2 cars sitting inside the concourse when you go in! It was a little mind-boggling to figure out how they got those cars up on the 3rd level of the stadium) . This is the luxury level that houses all the suites and the press boxes. Here are Trent and Ella pretending to be TBS sportscasters:

As you can tell from Ella's body language it was time for lunch at this point!

We then walked into the next room that is reserved for the rest of the print media, scouts, game announcers, and the "stats" people. Here's the next Voice of the Braves:


Following the press rooms we walked down to Trent's FAVORITE part...THE BRAVES DUGOUT!!!!! Trent says this was the best part of the whole tour:



We finished the tour with a walk along the field (on the dirt, we were not allowed to touch the grass) to the visiting bullpen. Unfortunately, since tonight is a home game, we were not able to see the clubhouse (locker rooms). If we had gotten to the 11:00 tour we would've been able to see the visiting locker rooms, but we were 15 minutes too late getting tickets. Oh, well.

We finished the morning with lunch across the street from Turner Field at a little grill & bar call "The Bullpen." It was very good and much needed at 1:00. It is completely full of Braves pictures from 1966 to the present. We are going to save Olympic Centennial Park for another day. The day was starting to heat up when we left lunch and Ella was getting cranky.

We will be attending tomorrow night's baseball against the Pittsburgh Pirates. Our seats are in the Upper Deck between Home plate and 1st base. We were able to see them from afar today and they look like they are going to be great seats for Trent's first MLB game.

Don't forget to leave us a comment...Trent is very excited about everyone getting to read about his vacation! We will write more tomorrow!