The Huebner Family: Entry 486: Fan Fest

We have been planning for this event for 3 years and it is finally here: MLB All Star Game weekend. As many of you know we are huge (that is probably a big understatement) baseball fans; particularly the Royals. Three years ago we had a pretty good idea that MLB was going to be awarding the Royals an All Star Game, so we decided that this was something we really wanted to do and started becoming season ticket holders to make sure it would happen. Well our intuition was right and Kansas City is hosting the All Star Game and all of the activities which we are going to be lucky enough to go to. Sunday we are going to the Futures Game/Celebrity Softball Game, Monday is the Home Run Derby, and Tuesday is the actual All Star Game. Today though we had the chance to go to Fan Fest. Our All Star Game package came with 4 tickets to Fan Fest and Lance was able to secure one more, so we decided to invite Lance's stepbrother and family to go with us. We really enjoy hanging out with them and they have a son who is a big baseball fan and we figured this would be great for him. We all went in with different game plans; Julie wanted to get Bo Jackson's autograph and Lance wanted to see everything there was and get a few autographs. We both accomplished our mission. Julie did get a chance to meet Bo Jackson and get his autograph, but it was quite the ordeal. Bo Jackson was signing at 2:00 and at 10:30 when we were getting ready to get Mike Sweeney's autograph, Julie asked the security guy what he knew about the Bo Jackson signing and the guy said that people had already started lining up for that. Lance decided that Julie could get the autograph herself, so he went with his stepbrother and friend and went to find the autograph line. We found the line and were told that they only guaranteed the first 100 people an autograph and Julie was lucky enough to be number 93. So we (Lance for a half hour and Julie for three) basically waited in line for 3 1/2 hours to get Bo's autograph and the kicker is that the only thing he would sign was a picture and nothing else. This was the highlight of the Fan Fest for Julie though. The rest of the Fan Fest we got a few more autographs, got baseball cards made of ourselves, got our picture next to the World Series trophy, bought a few pins, got tons of free stuff, and did a little bit of shopping. It was an absolute great time. Enjoy some of the pictures.