Today's trip was to San Diego with a connecting trip to Phoenix. Too bad all the drives can't be like LA to SD. The views were awesome and it was 90 minutes, somehow Cindy had to go to the bathroom more in that drive than any of the 7 hour trips!
The weather in SD was awesome, 70 degrees and sunny. The stadium was equally as awesome. (It is definitely top 3 of the stadiums we have seen so far). Petco Park has tile work on the exterior of the building making it look real upscale.
The best thing about the stadium was the 5 for $5 deal they had. Someone please forward the following to Tom Hicks: for $5 you get a full size hot dog, a 22 ounce drink, a cookie, a bag of popcorn, and a bag of peanuts! A hot dog by itself is $4.50. The other crazy thing about this stadium is that it had buildings on the stadium grounds, an old warehouse, a hotel, and a condo building. So those people can watch the games for free on their balconies. Also out in center field behind the seats there is a grass area with a large tv and a sign that says come here to watch all SD road games.
As for the game, despite it being 70 degrees, we were sitting in the direct sunlight; so Cindy had to keep getting up and cooling off in the concession area. And I was embarassed at myself for wearing a Rangers Kinsler jersey with a Tigers hat. How could I let something like that happen? To protect C from the sun and me from any further embarassment, once we got to the bottom of the eighth, Dodgers up 6-1 and the Mexecutioners 13-2-1 week already wrapped up; I made the call to leave the game. Turns out the game got a lot more interesting when we left....going 13 innings! Dodgers still won, so we didn't really miss much.
After the game, at around 3:45 we headed for Phoenix. We headed straight into the mountains...great. I have decided I like the mountains better from afar. Driving through them you have no railings, no radio, your ears pop, and everyone is flying by you. To top it off, some idiot decided that a 300 ft bridge was a good idea up there 4000 ft in the air! Anyways we drove 2 hours before making our first stop in El Centro, CA....it was 112 degrees!! We arrived in Phoenix around 9:30; and now we have all day Monday to relax before Monday night's Padres/Dbacks game.
Scatter-shooting while driving to Phoenix:
- It is fun to drive while imitating fake Greggo, saying things like "Oh boy" and "Man I'm getting bored with this"
- Singing the entire song 99 bottles of beer on the wall is more exhausting than you might think. (for the record I only messed up once, Cindy twice)
- Why are there 100 mexican radio stations but no country ones between SD and Yuma?
- It took us 5 seconds to get through the Border Patrol check. They took one look at Cindy and said, nope no Mexicans in this car.
- Why do we celebrate a "birthday" every year but a wedding day only once?
- Del Taco restaurant is pretty dang good but they need to take credit cards
- Snickers ice cream bars are underrated
Well that's all folks until tomorrow.....
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