Thai Food and the Mariners

Thursday, a guy from our ward came over to pick up our boxes and take them to a family he home teaches that is moving out this week (we were very glad to get rid of them) and as he was leaving he gave us a gift certificate as a "welcome to the neighborhood" gift. We thought that was very nice and we were very appreciative. It was to a little hole in the wall Thai restaurant called Phayathai, it is just around the corner from us and apparently it is always voted best Thai food in Seattle (which is saying a lot, because there are A LOT of Thai restaurants). So we were excited about our gift certificate thinking it would be fun to go there, when we opened the gift certificate it was for $40! Wow! Way nice!

So we went there for lunch yesterday and it was sooooo good (Richard is eating the leftovers right now)! We really liked it a lot and it is totally affordable for lunch and it is a really fun little restaurant. We will definitely be going there again (especially since we barely used half of our gift certificate!).

For our evening activity we went to a Mariners' baseball game. It was sooooo fun (unfortunately they aren't very good this year, but apparently we picked the right night to go!). So we got to the ballpark at about 6:45 (the game was starting at 7:10). As we were walking to the ticket office there were a ton of scalpers, but they were asking for more than we wanted to pay (we were planning on buying the cheapest tickets ($8), but when we got to the ticket office we found out that they were sold out and the cheapest tickets they had left were $22 (for not very good seats). So...back to the scalpers we went. After some walking around and "playing the scalping game" (which the scalpers are way better at) we ended up with great seats (the face value of the tickets were $40 each and we paid $40 for both) and we were very happy with the seats. It ended up being a more expensive evening than anticipated, but it was totally worth it, we loved every minute of it and now we know we have to buy our tickets early if we want the cheap ones. :)

The game was so much fun and the Mariners beat the Padres 15-8, so needless to say it was a very exciting and eventful game. Here are a few pictures from the night. We had lots of fun and we will definitely be going back! (PS...the hat Richard is wearing in the picture was a graduation present from me so that he could really support his new team). :)

GO MARINERS!