Birthday Beer Tasting

Yesterday, we celebrated Bruce's birthday by doing some of his favorite things, which everyone ought to do on their birthday, right? Of course, his favorite thing is for me to cook a dinner and make his favorite carrot cake like we did in 2015. But his second favorite thing would be to go to a baseball game, have some good beer along with some good beer-tasting food to go along with it. The Mariners were having a special beer-tasting event going on last night for season ticket holders and thirty-three people signed up for it, including us.

It wasn't as extensive of a beer-tasting as the one we went to for my birthday in 2015 hosted by Schooner Exact brewery but it was still pretty good. This one was hosted by Ghostfish Brewing who provided two beers, an IPA and a white ale.

They are located just a few blocks from Safeco Field and are a small brewery of about fifteen barrels who have been around only a couple of years. I really liked their white ale and Bruce really liked the IPA, but then he always likes real hoppy beers.

The food was excellent, too, which included some barbecued pulled pork sliders

some hummus with veggies

coleslaw, stuffed peppers wrapped in bacon and some chili beef empanadas. They were all prefect choices to go with beer.

We had nice visits with other season ticket holders and we also ran into our season ticket representative who was there so we had a good chance to get caught up with him. We seem to run into him at least once a year, like last year when we took Bruce's dad to Safeco for his 90th birthday.

He is responsible for inviting us to deliver the honorary game ball to home plate at the season opener in 2012. We will be forever friends with him.

We wandered around Safeco Field after the beer-tasting since we still had about an hour before the first pitch. We watched the broadcasters for awhile

and paused for a photo op with Dave Niehaus.

I was a fun birthday evening. But I think the best present for Bruce on this day was from the tree guys who came to trim trees on our property and next door.

It seems like they have a treacherous job but they do it with such ease. They truly amaze us. This is the second time we've had them come out to trim our trees and this time they also did the neighbors property which was a much bigger job but no problem for them.

It made a big difference in our view, as you can see.

Before

After

Before

After

Happy Birthday, Bruce! Your view is back.

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