The thing about Asa working Saturdays is that he's always missing free events around the Tampa Bay Area. Last week it was MarineQuest, and this week it was the Zephyrhills Water open house. When I heard about this totally free event (all you had to do was sign up for tickets), I thought it'd be a fun 'field trip' for the boys. Once a year the water bottling plant in Zephyrhills opens up and give out free tours. They had a ton of other activities too, which was pretty awesome. When we came in we even got a 'welcome bag' which was a backpack with some coupons, pens, and educational information in it.
We decided to tour the factory first. I wasn't allowed to take any pictures once we got into the factory (which was a shame the boys looked too cute in their glasses and hard hats), but I did snap one in the lobby after we got our safety vests and before we got into the actual factory.
It was a pretty cool tour. We saw how the bottles are made (and got to take home one before it's 'blown' out), we got to see them get filled (the water comes from crystal springs- about three miles away) and capped, before seeing them either wrapped or boxed. We had one of the workers show us around and explain what all the different machines did, and answered any questions.
I thought the factory tour was it, but there was a whole festival atmosphere going on within the plants gates. We got free snow cones- that the boys even got to put the syrup on themselves.
Hayden was the only one who wanted to take a picture with the giant Zephyrhills water bottle mascot.
There were lots of educational displays for us to check out- giving me some questions for Jeopardy next time around!
The even had a pumpkin patch for all the kids to take home free pumpkins!
Oh, and of course we all got free water to take home.
I forgot to snap a picture of the water bottle samples the boys got in the factory until we got home- here's Hayden with his.
The boys asked to get up earlier this morning so we'd be at Al Lopez for a little longer before we headed to the stadium, so we set the alarm for 9:30. (That's the kind of life we live, we have to set alarms for 9:30 am, I know- it's rough. To be fair, Asa only gets to sleep in 3 days a week, though)
Since the weather is getting nicer (much cooler and really very comfortable in the shade), we decided to cook out instead of picking something up on the way.
Tailgating- Always a high light of our Sundays during home games.
We also finally got around to getting Calib his new jersey. He's the only one with one of the 'new' uniforms.
And we got there in time to see the very exciting end of the Lions Falcons game in London.
The Bucs were playing the Vikings today, and I was actually mad at myself for not realizing it was prime time to wear my Favre Vikings Jersey- I saw a whole bunch of them! But, I was rooting for the Bucs.
It was hot, only because there wasn't a cloud in the sky. We applied sunscreen before we left the park and the end of every quarter, and some of us still got sunburnt.
But, it wasn't unbearably hot like it had been the last few games.
There also wasn't a whole lot of people there- this is the third quarter. A few more came back from halftime, but not a ton. I know we're losing, but it's still sad to see so few people at the games.
We did take the lead with two minutes to go!
So we were pretty happy.
But then the Vikings scored too, and it went into OT.
How did it go? Well, the next picture is Asa drinking rum and coke out of the Bucs cup from the game. I think you can figure it out from there. (Poor Asa, there is not enough Rum in the world for this season)
The good news is, Saint Louis lost too, so we're hoping it drives ticket prices down. And, I mean it could be worse- we could be the Raiders. But, seriously, that's the only team that is statistically worse than us. I really would just like to see the Bucs win at home at least once this season. *sigh* Next week, we're away at the Browns. I don't have high hopes, and I REALLY don't want to hear it from all my Browns fans friends (so you know, be warned)
Next Up: It's an office week for Asa, so we've got a normal week full of home school with a fun mid-term election lesson and some Halloween activities. Hoping to make it to MOSI for our weekend, but we'll see.
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