Go Mariners!

Apologies for poor quality phone pic

So we are now officially Seattleites.

This afternoon we all went (with one of the Minx’s friends from nursery and his family) to see the Seattle Mariners – our first ever baseball match.

I can’t pretend that I understood everything that was going on, but that didn’t stop it being the most tremendous fun.  Torrential rain having returned to Seattle with a vengeance this weekend, Safeco Field was also by the far the best place to be in all Seattle, as it has a retractable roof.

The Minx had a whale of a time cheering along with everyone else though her appreciation of the finer points of the game was a tad sketchy, and it was just a grand family day out – and a huge contrast with the aggressively macho atmosphere of football matches in the UK.

Just so you can all orientate yourselves a bit, here’s a picture I took earlier this year from the Space Needle, with Mt Rainier in the background and Safeco Field to the far right (the stadium to the left is the NFL stadium).