Turner Field

The last time that Josh and I were stationed in Ft. Benning, we didn't take advantage of the fact that we were so close to Atlanta.  When we found out we'd be here again, we agreed to make sure we took the boys up there to do some fun things!  Atlanta is about an hour and a half drive from the city of Columbus (which is the city where Ft. Benning is located), and we wanted to take the boys to a baseball game at Turner Field.  Of course we didn't want to just watch the Braves play (no offense to those Braves fans out there).  We wanted to go watch the best team in MLB...the Cincinnati Reds of course!!  So we found out when the Reds played in Atlanta, got some great tickets, dressed in our Reds gear (including Joey Votto t-shirts for the boys), and went to the game!  We had such a great time!  Turner Field is a really nice stadium, and while we figured we'd get some heckling from the Braves fans, everyone was very nice and fun-loving!  There were quite a few fellow Reds fans in attendance, and it was fun interacting with them too!  We got to the stadium early enough to watch the Reds batting practice, and Joey Votto, the boys' fave player was within shouting distance.  Ty and Caellum kept yelling his name and waving at him.  And guess what?!  One of the Reds players threw us a baseball!  :-)  The icing on the cake was that the Reds won that game!  Yay!  We are so glad we took the boys.  Such fun!

The boys in front of the Hank Aaron statue

Turner Field

        The player closest to us was the one who threw us a ball! :-)

Having fun at the game (and yes, Ty has a Braves sticker on his shirt...one of the workers gave it to him, lol!)

                                 Ty holding the ball that was thrown to us

          

Go Reds!!