Harry Potter Tigers Night!

Once again, we are season ticket holders for the Tigers. Each year, I say I'm not going to sign up again...and then the snow hits, and I dream of sitting in Comerica Park, sweating a bit while eating my chicken tendies...and I register for another season. It's been fun this year because the Tigers are actually doing pretty well, so we fight the crowds (those fair weather fans) and show up weekly to see some good ball playing.

About a month ago, we were sitting in a game, and the jumbo screen shared the announcement of Harry Potter night in a few weeks. We had tickets for the game the night before, but not for the actual Harry Potter game, so I posted the Friday night tickets (and sold them a few days later) and bought tickets for all of us for Saturday's game. We didn't come dressed in costumes, but we all wore our HP shirts.

What a game it was! Harry Potter trivia was a great start, and Hannah ended up placing FIRST which is pretty incredible when you consider an entire park was playing. She also got on the scoreboard--seriously, the camera is drawn to her like a bear to honey.

Too, all of the messages on the scoreboard were posted in HP font.

There was an announcement that we could get caricatures done, so I sent the girls down to get theirs (since I only have the boys' from Disneyland Paris so many years ago). Hannah's turned out AMAZING, but Glo's was borderline ugly, so Hannah had her stand in line with the guy who did her drawing, and it turned out better....but it wasn't really Glo. Poor Glo--I could tell she felt badly...but Hannah didn't ;-)

The Tigers ended up winning which is always a win in our book....and which will sway me, I'm sure, to buy tickets for next year.

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