Mariners' Caravan

A couple weeks ago the Mariners' Caravan stopped in Lacey at Saint Martin's.  They make a criss cross journey across the state before they have to report for Spring Training.  Fan Fest in this upcoming weekend at Safeco.  So the girls and I went.  Lauren wouldn't miss an opportunity to see Mariner Moose.

The above pic a lady in front of us offered to take.  Too bad Lauren wasn't looking and we could crop the random in the background out of it!  I like the one below better! Even if it is an extreme closeup!

 Here's Lauren with Mariner Moose.

 Then we stood patiently in line to see John Jaso, Mike Carp, Dan Wilson and the announcer Dave Smith.  The big bummer was that last week they announced they traded John Jaso.  Seriously??!  Lauren had taken a liking to him after asking him what was his favorite "pie to the face" incident he has pulled.  Which he responded "Eric Thames because his mouth was open!"  We actually saw that one on TV!  So now she's lost Doug Fister and John Jaso!  Hopefully they don't trade Mariner Moose!

I love this pic of all of us. After we saw the players and got autographs, we got another pic with Mariner Moose.  Adalynn didn't cry but wouldn't take her eyes off of him!

Quick story.  So during the "pep rally" portion they had a drawing.  We had 3 tickets for the 3 of us.  Lauren won (or atleast one of us did!)!!  She won an oversized t-shirt for herself.  She was so excited.  She ran up there and tried giving her ticket to any player that would take it. Then Mariner Moose, pretending to be scared by her excitement, threw the t-shirt on her head. She stood there for a good 30 seconds frozen.  The crowd was laughing.  Moose finally took the shirt off of her, then had her picture taken with Moose by the Mariners photographer.  It was pretty funny!  She was so excited she handed her t-shirt back to Moose and started to leave! Until they all told her "no the t-shirt's yours!"  One excited girl!