Last week I won some tickets, thanks to Maya's Mom, to the MLB Fan Fest. Just so happened that my best friend, whose son - born two days before W - is also W's best buddy, was visiting this past weekend. N and I decided to play out our (okay MY) three kid fantasy and take our two boys plus best buddy to Moscone Center on Saturday for some serious baseball fun.
Fun, it was. We knew we were in for a treat when we were handed a swag bag immediately upon entering. "What's this for?" W asked. "Free stuff!" I said, skipping right up to the first handout and shoving one into each of the three kids' bags. We got soft SF Giants baseballs, sweet wristbands with big W's on them (which was very appropriate for our big guy), licence plate frames, and PENNANTS which have turned my little boy's bedroom wall into a big boy's bedroom wall overnight. Where there once was a big poster of cartoonish airplanes there now hang oblong triangles full of manly batting and fielding power images. (W has also been experiencing his first girl-crush this week. My baby boy world is quickly going to shit).
Back to fan fest, free stuff wasn't the only allure. Allyssa Milano was set to appear to unveil her MLB jewelry line (WTF?) but, as N was disappointed to find, she wasn't there the day we attended.
We settled on fielding (as you can see they had a sweet fielding range set up here), swinging at both video and non-video batting cages, and begging the Emcee to squeeze our kids into the already full Cal Ripkin Quickball clinic on the indoor baseball diamond. We also took some silly photos.
And the best part? The day cost me a total of $16 (for THREE $4 pretzels and ONE $4 Gatorade...guess they have to get your money somewhere).
Thanks Maya's Mom!
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Whee! Just goes to show how huge that place was that we didn't get to any of that stuff (and had to "win" our baseballs). Glad you all had fun.
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