Sunday, June 11, 2017

Wednesday, 6/7/17 (Part 2) - Columbia, SC to Charlotte, NC

Post-presidency gas station empire?


Random baseball water tower. We think this must be left over from the Charlotte Knights' former ballpark in Ft. Mill, South Carolina..

Hello Charlotte!



In the North Carolina Welcome Center, all the racing teams are represented.

Far too much

Ticket kiosk at the Charlotte Knights' new stadium. It's actually in Charlotte this time! We're here to see the Knights (AAA for the Chicago White Sox) play the Durham Bulls (AAA for the Tampa Bay Rays).

Special guest!

Well hello there, your highness!

Throwing out the first pitch, very regally.

The Armor Shoppe

Our stamp!

Dinner at an outpost of Whiskey River, a restaurant owned by local legend Dale Earnhardt, Jr.


So much yumminess in those hands. 

View from out here in right field.

The people in the apartments are hanging out on their balconies, watching the game.

Homer the Dragon racing a kid.

Life-sized computer game controllers. There was no way to show scale. You just have to believe us. 


And then these guys came up to Todd and asked if he had been at the game in Columbia earlier that day. They saw us there. How cool!
Ready for the mind-blowing part? We met one of them (Guillermo) in 2009 at a baseball game in Greenville, SC! 
We spent the game with him and his (and now our) friend, Rob. Hi Guillermo! Hi Rob!

Stephanie and a Mellow Mushroom

Stephanie and some Joker

Stephanie and some Knight

The view from out here in left field

A beautiful sky, with beautiful reflections off the building

Home Run Knights!

Psst. There's a dragon peeking out back there. If you don't move, he can't see you, right?

There's a big discussion on the pitcher's mound. 

The Knights got gored. It's a nice scoreboard, though.

Charlotte is known as the "Queen City." Here's the tiara it deserves.

He was a little cold and unmoved by Stephanie's charms.


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