Fourth of July Weekend - Part I

We kicked off our 4th of July weekend by introducing Lucas to one of mine and Wally's favorite past times - minor/independent league baseball. One summer in particular when we were both in college, Wally and I would go to 2 sometimes 3 games a week. We would travel all over Illinois (a lot of teams are within an hour or two of L-P). So we thought it was time to bring Lucas to one. We headed to the Windy City Thunderbolts (independent league) baseball game. This was Lucas' first "real" baseball game and he seemed to enjoy it - well at least the people watching part of it. He really could have cared less about what was going on on the field. The best part though - $1 beers, $1 hot dogs, $1 popcorn, $1 soda...are you serious?!?! We knew minor league baseball was cheap fun, but this was crazy!!! We will be heading to more Thunderbolts games in the future!!