I was lucky enough to attend my second series, this year, of the Braves vs Astros.
Although this time it was a bit different, my husband and I went without the kids.
We truly enjoyed our weekend.  As in the pasted we stayed
 at the same hotel with the Braves.  The crowd was huge this time and the players
were not as visible as in the past.  I did not get to see Javy at all, not even a glimpse.
 I was disappointed, but I did get to meet Bako, Mulholland, Don Sutton, Pete Van Wieren,
 Gene Diamond, and Andy Ashby. I got Andruw Jones to autograph a picture  I had
 taken with him last year, I was very excited about that, and I also got Bako, Ashby,
  and Leo to autograph my sons shirt.  I did have a weird meeting with Chipper.
My niece, is one of his biggest fans, and asked me to try to get a picture of him smiling.
So when he was signing autographs and I was standing in the back of the people
   I said "Chipper can you smile for me?"  And he made a funny face and said
  "Do I have to?"  It was really funny and then I had my camera set on red
 eye reduction so it double flashes and he turned before the picture finished snapping.
My picture didn't come out like I wanted, but it was a cute encounter and something I'll
remember. My husband rode in the elevator with Furcal the morning after his home run.
 He told him beautiful home run and Furcal said "Thank You, sir, Thank you very much"
   with a huge smile on his face. Furcal was still on top of the world  Sunday morning.

Now on to the games.  We had great seats for all three games.  Sunday we had the very
best seats.  We were seated  in-between home plate and the Braves dugout,
8 rows from the field.
Friday night's game was close, but the Braves came out on the losing end.
  Saturday the Braves came back in the eighth to win and we got to see Furcal hit his first
 major league home run.  That was very exciting. Sunday's game the seats were great,
 like I said, but the Braves got hammered. I truly love baseball so I enjoy
every game I get to attend.  This  was a fun trip for me, and I was glad to spend my 10th
anniversary trip watching the Atlanta Braves.
Every year I have the pleasure of meeting someone new either at the game or the
hotel and I now have many Brave Fan friends that I will enjoy staying  in contact with.
  Okay, everyone enjoy the pictures I'll post below, but remember
 they are only for enjoyment and not to be taken.  I hope everyone
 is cheering hard  for the Braves and that we get to the World Series
again.  Go BRAVES!!



 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 Rafael Furcal
B.J.  Surhoff
Andy Ashby
Andruw Jones
Javy Lopez
Paul Bako
Chipper Jones
Brian Jordan
Terry Mulholland
Andres Galarraga
George Lombard
Wally Joyner
Meeting TBS Announcers