Mike's company has a customer that owns the Bakersfield Jam (A "D League" basketball team that feeds players to the NBA). To support their customer his company has purchased season tickets to the games. Mike went to one of the games a year or so ago and came home telling me if we ever have a chance to go we should because the kids would love it - especially Logan. Well, we did have the opportunity to go this weekend. So we decided to ignore the guilt of leaving our responsibilities behind and the four of us took off for a weekend get away...
The kids were excited to go, but Kaitlyn was rethinking things when we passed Harris Ranch.
The drive was 4 hours. I had rented movies to pass the time, but they weren't interested in watching them on the way there, we just visited and ate junk food. It was fun to be able to have the time to talk with each other.
As we arrived at the game we saw "Swish" the team mascot. Logan thought it would be cool to have his picture taken with him - Kaitlyn thought he was creepy.
When Mike went before they had courtside seats, but he wasn't sure if that's where the tickets were this year so he decided not to say anything until we found out for sure. We lucked out and had courtside tickets. Soon after we arrived they passed out "Bam Bams". They were red tubes that we blew up and they make a lot of noise when you bang them together.
As you can see Logan was thrilled that he could make as much noise as he wanted to.
Before the game one of the refs came over and gave knuckles to the kids, during different breaks in the game Swish came over and gave them high 5's. T-shirts and posters were thrown out during the game and Logan got a poster.
We all had a great time, but no one as much as Logan. He yelled, danced to the music, cheered on the Jam and heckled the opposing team. He started to lose his voice by the 2nd quarter. He was having an awesome time! Half way through the 4th quarter a lady came up behind me and told me they had chosen Logan as the "Fan of the Game". She told us to stick around after the game because they wanted to take his picture with the Player of the Game.
Once the game was over they took him to the center of the court, gave him a Fan of the Game t-shirt and basketball and took this picture with Swish and the Player of the Game.
Logan then asked Will Daniels (the Player of the Game) to sign his basketball. He is sure Will is going to become a famous NBA player someday and his signed basketball will be worth some money. He definitely decided the drive was worth it and we all agreed.
We all had a great time, but no one as much as Logan. He yelled, danced to the music, cheered on the Jam and heckled the opposing team. He started to lose his voice by the 2nd quarter. He was having an awesome time! Half way through the 4th quarter a lady came up behind me and told me they had chosen Logan as the "Fan of the Game". She told us to stick around after the game because they wanted to take his picture with the Player of the Game.
Once the game was over they took him to the center of the court, gave him a Fan of the Game t-shirt and basketball and took this picture with Swish and the Player of the Game.
Logan then asked Will Daniels (the Player of the Game) to sign his basketball. He is sure Will is going to become a famous NBA player someday and his signed basketball will be worth some money. He definitely decided the drive was worth it and we all agreed.
