All-Star Festivities

Let me first just say. Todd.Freaking.Frazier! Last night's home run derby was an absolute blast to watch!! In honor of today being that big All-Star baseball thing, I figured I should actually show up and talk about what I've been up to. In my world, weekends are low-key more often that not, but that was not the case for this past weekend. I almost don't know where to start, I've been a busy bee!! I had plans Friday, Saturday & Sunday. And not just any plans, epic events! Friend city! Major celebrations! Since there's no way to fit all of that into just one post, I'm focusing on the fact that Jared and I got to attend FanFest and the AllStar Futures/Celebrity Softball game over the weekend!

In case you're living under a rock, Cincinnati is hosting the MLB AllStar game tonight and the fun and festivities kicked off last weekend. We lucked out with free tickets to a couple of the events at the last minute. I'd been keeping my fingers crossed for a hook-up and it finally came through!

We'd thought about buying tickets to FanFest, but the $35 price scared us away. While it seemed really steep, I now realize that the freebies we walked away with were definitely worth the cost of admission. Jared and I each scored 2 tickets (so 4 total!) to the Louisville Slugger Museum, a $10 Dunkin' Donuts giftcard and a really cool AllStar game souvenir baseball. Those few items in addition to all the cool stuff to see/do? Definitely worth paying for- even though we didn't have to. I do think kids tickets should have been priced a little lower, but that's just my opinion.

I took a zillion photos that day- the few I'm posting don't even scratch the surface of everything we got to experience. We spent about three entire hours there- and would have probably stayed even longer but let's be honest- I got hungry. There was so much to look at, read, see, interact with, and plenty of photo opp's.

The ballpark was a fun time too- despite the weird weather we were having. It was hot, there were a few sporadic quick showers and before long we were in a full-blown rain forest and sweating like it was our job. Let's just say we left there very sticky people, but thankfully Rosie Red didn't mine and still let us snag a picture with her before leaving. That was my first photo with her, score!!

And of course we couldn't pass up any mustache without a picture. I think Jared nailed this pose ;)

So excuse me if I've got bags under my eyes, weird suntan/burn lines on my chest and if it takes me a minute to comprehend what you're saying when we chat... I'm still in a baseball fog today! Cincinnati is a great place to be :)