We came to Jacksonville to see the Suns. We also came to the Sunshine State to the SUN. Mother nature had other plans for us. Heavily overcast skies and the on and off rain threatened to cancel the Suns game last night, but luckily the rain held off long enough for the game to get started. Upon arrival, we first got to meet the 83-year old owner of the Suns (who wanted to make sure we didn’t park in his spot) and then we met Stephanie, who hooked us up with both an autographed team bat AND ball for our raffle! We were able to set up our table in the main concourse so we had a perfect view of the game. The crowd was again a bit sparse due to the threatening weather, but that didn’t stop Chris and I from selling almost as many raffle tickets as the night before. By the 4th inning, the rain had started to fall so we ended our raffle early and picked three happy winners.

I had the chance to speak with Robert, part of the staff who was stationed next to our table. In addition to working at the Suns game, Robert also works at the Jacksonville Jaguars games in the fall and was even able to work at last year’s Superbowl. The best part of his job—watching the games, of course.

We left the game in the 6th inning after our raffle finished and the rain was still coming down. As Chris and I sat in the car mapping our next destination into our TomTom GPS system—a huge THUD sound is made on the front of the car. Chris bolts out of the car and picks up the foul ball that came from inside the stadium and hit the hood of a car. Another 12 inches and the ball would have smashed our windshield. Below is a video of Chris and his first foul ball.