Play Ball!: Individual Lime Sherbet Punch

One of my least favorite days of baseball is the day when all the Pony League teams across San Diego go to the ballpark together.

Don't get me wrong, I love a good day at the ballpark as much as the next guy, but all those kids?  It's so overwhelming. 

Plus, it's a pretty long day as we have to get there hours early in order for the kids to line up, to march around the field before the game starts.  A march in which you inevitably can't even see your kids, because they don't bring them where the parents are allowed to stand and watch.

So why do we go every year?

Because look how happy it makes my kid:

He just loves it.  He loves going on the field.  He loves watching the game with his friends.  He loves every minute.

The good parts?  Every year Pony League day seems to coincide with Military Appreciation Day, so we get to see some really cool preshow stuff.  This is the second year in a row that we've had Navy Seals parachute into the stadium.

Thatbaby was also very into cheering - whenever the bigger boys cheered.

One of the best parts of Petco Park is how kid friendly it is.  The last couple of innings we brought the kids over to "Park at the Park" and let them run around a bit until the end of the game.

I always take advantage of the fun drinks while we're there.  One of our local breweries opened up a distillery and they always have a presence there with a bunch of fun themed drinks.  Since this game we were playing the Giants, I got my hands around the "Giant Crusher."

I am all about fun drinks for the summer, even better when I can make something easily translated from alcoholic to non-alcoholic, depending on the occasion.   The idea of an individual ice cream punch was mine - because sometimes you don't want to make a huge thing of punch, you just want something for you to enjoy.  The flavor was picked by Thatkid, who wanted something green and REALLY limey.  We talked about using lime sherbet and strawberry lemonade, or watermelon cooler, but in the end, his vote for "lime, lime, and more lime" won out.

And the best part of the drink is that to "adultify" it, all you need to do is add a shot (or two) of gin.  It then becomes a really fun take on the classic lime rickey.

Individual Lime Sherbet Punch

1 cup lime sherbet, softened

1 1/2 cups limeaid

2 cups lemon-lime soda

*optional - gin

1.  Place 1 scoop of sherbet into 4 glasses.
2.  Top sherbet with 3/4 cup of limeaid per glass.
3. Add 1/2 cup of lemon lime soda to each glass.
4. If you wish to make this a grown up drink, add a shot of gin to each glass.