I was out in Bothell, WA last week for work, I was part of an external review team visiting a mercury analytical lab. There were five of us as part of the team, the others were from Denver, CO, Champaign, IL, Jacksonville, FL and Augusta, GA.

Bothell is north of Seattle and only a 15 minute drive from our friends, Nikki and Richard, who live in Woodinville. I was able to spend a couple of nights with them on the weekend. On Sunday morning I got a chance to watch their daughter Sarah ride at a horse show. Here she is in one of the events. She did well overall in about five events.

In the afternoon Richard and I headed to the Seattle Mariners game, they were playing the Toronto Blue Jays. Nikki had picked up tickets ahead of time for us.

Safeco field is an open air stadium, but has a roof that can roll over during inclement weather. Even though it was raining in the morning they had the roof off.

We were sitting down the right field line. There were probably more Blue Jays fans then Mariners fans.

Although it was not a sellout as noted by the empty seats.

This was just after the bizarre triple play by the mariners.

The skies started getting dark, and the roof started to close.

The roof can move fairly quick. The roof just covers the field and stands, it doesn’t seal the stadium.

This is the roof fully closed.