What better way to spend the 4th of July than watch a baseball game? I mean, come on now, what's more American than watching the favorite past time called baseball?
So, Andrew has always wanted to go to Fenway and he's been wanting to see the Mariners. Just our luck, the M's were are playing in Boston during the weekend, so we decided to spend the money off of stubhub and drive up to Boston to see the game. See pictures of Fenway on my photobucket account! (sorry, no Disneyland pictures - still needing to sort though which are good and which need to be deleted). It's nice to see another legendary ballpark - nothing like a ballpark that is there for the enjoyment of baseball. Definitely Wrigley beats Fenway, but Fenway definitely ranks above the old Yankee Stadium, and the overall game experience is better at Fenway or Wrigley than as one would find at Safeco. Though, if for some reason the M's make it to the playoffs and find themselves playing the Yankees in New York, Andrew will be finding a way to get us tickets to go to a game at the new stadium.
Sadly, we didn't get to the game until the third inning due to the police starting to shut down roads for the events on the Esplanade and then after finding our way to the parking garage, figured out that the garage is no where near the ballpark and then getting lost in Boston trying to find the trains to get to Fenway... at least we finally got there and the M's didn't score any runs until we were there. Good game - Mariners showed their defense and beat the Red Sox 3-2 (the Red Sox scored their runs prior to our arrival - we like to think that us being there helped the M's score and win the game).
And of course, here I sit blogging during the time when Boston's big fireworks show happens... obvious that I'm not there watching it, huh? Well, we had intentions to go watch the display, but due to the earlier adventures of the day and knowing that we would be hard-pressed to find a place to see the whole display on the Esplanade, we decided to bag it (we were really tired) and just go back to our hotel room outside of Boston. Apparently, the police blocked off more roads, so instead of a 15 minute drive back to the hotel, it was an hour +. Seriously, right now at least half, if not more of downtown Boston is blocked off to traffic - and apparantly pedestrians get right-of way even if traffic has a green light...
Moral of the story: don't travel on the to a city you don't know on a holiday weekend. But if you do, pay twice the money to stay at a hotel in downtown, near mass transit to get you to where you want to go - just park the car and leave it there until you want to leave, well after the mess of 4th of July traffic.
Eh, the game was worth it though :) Who's envious of me now?
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Hey! Nice pic of you guys! Miss ya!
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