Giants Fan Fest

See those holes in the wall?
Yup. Those are from baseballs hit by professional baseball players.
We were on the Giants baseball field because...we know people :)

Not really.
But we were actually on the Giants baseball field.

Earlier this month we went to the Giants Fan Fest. Neither of us quite knew what to expect because we hadn't ever been. Jeff was super excited and was so anxious to get out of the house. As we were driving there, we thought we might have missed our chance. The event hadn't even officially started yet, but the broadcasters on the SF sports radio announced that there were already so many Giants fans in line that if you weren't already in line - stay home. We were shocked they were actually telling people NOT to come!

We both decided we still had to try.
Best decision ever.

When we got there, we saw the line the broadcasters had been talking about. There were Giants employees telling people this was definitely the only line. But Jeff was convinced that these people were just being typical San Franciscans.

Since we've moved here Jeff has said that San Franciscans will stand in line for anything.
He says that they see a line and say, "Oh! A line. I should probably get it, even though I don't know what the heck I'm standing in line for or where this line is going!"

Well Jeff's theory was actually proved to be right this day. He said we should try going to the front gates to see what it looked like there because this line was at a complete stand still. We went to one side of the ballpark, and those gates were, slowly, feeding in the super long line we'd just passed. Then we went to the other side of the ballpark, and it was madness! There was kind of a line, but not really, feeding into the gates, but there were also just people everywhere. Jeff turned to me bright-eyed and said, "This is our chance!" So we pulled a Youngberg (Jeff's dad is king of this kind of stuff), we slipped on in (nobody being any the wiser), and we would've made Dad Youngberg proud :)

This doesn't show the line, but we went in here. There were just people everywhere, so no one was really paying any attention to who went in the gates as long as you let then check your bags.

Super awesome right?

The rest of the time was amazing. It was so crowded until we got the field. When we jumped down onto the baseball diamond, there was plenty of room.

Except for on the pitcher's mound...

Jeff's foot touching the pitcher's mound. Dream come true :)

Here we are looking like dorks...

But secretly pretending we're super awesome pro baseball players...


What the stadium looks like from the field...

the lights...


This picture reminds me of Field of Dreams for some reason...


And this is the line when we left...
Just PART of the line and this part was no where near the front.
These people were seriously just waiting and not moving.
They weren't going anywhere.

When we got into the stadium, they announced that the stadium was at full capacity.
No one else was let inside!
We left over an hour later and these people were still there.
Waiting.