Day 4: the Odyssey Comes to an End

Hot.  It's hot here.  Really really hot.

We biked around for a bit this morning, but ultimately you have to go indoors because the sun just beats down on you relentlessly.

That kind of sums up our day.  Which takes us to our last Giants/Diamondbacks game this evening.

We lost.  But once again everyone in the (not very full) stadium was quite friendly, and the baseball was good.  For the second day in a row, this happened:

batting practice souvenir from DeAza

The guy knows where to stand to catch home run balls during batting practice.  Last night he caught Belt's, tonight he caught DeAza's.  Pretty exciting!

And also, this happened:

we shared one, in case you were wondering

This is Chase Field's famous "Churro Dog".  It's a chocolate-iced donut (the long, bar kind) with a churro in it, topped with ice-cream, covered in whipped cream, finished off with caramel and chocolate syrup.  It's a spectacle.  It's famous.  We had to do it.  As it turns out, the idea is better than the execution.  By the time you're in the fifth inning of a night game, neither the churro nor the donut is what you'd call fresh.  But kudos to the people at the stadium for coming up with this very innovative take on the hot dog.  It's far more appealing to me than the other dish they are famous for, which is an eighteen-inch long corn dog stuffed with cheddar cheese and bacon, sitting on a pound of french fries.  It comes in at over 3000 calories.  I cannot, in good conscience, congratulate anyone for coming up with that idea.

this is what 3000 calories looks like; you should probably add a lipitor for good measure

So our first "adventure in retirement" is now coming to an end.  We have had a memorable time--most of it fun.  And even the stuff I wouldn't call plain-old outright fun I would say is going to provide many smiles and laughs when we think back on it.

I sent Olivia and Steven the picture of Dave and the Churro Dog this evening, and Olivia texted right back saying, "Empty-nesting looks really hard..... I don't think they even miss us Steven."

(for the record, yes we really do miss them!)