The Week That Was
Monday: Driving day. Take the 41 to the 99 to the I-5 to the 57 to the 71 to the 91 to the I-15 and you're there! With a stop in Bakersfield that's just about 6 1/2 hours. We also stopped in Oceanside only to find out that we were less than 5 minutes from the hotel. Live and learn.Got to our room in time to see Fresno State cough up a win in Game 1. Rats!
Tuesday: Sea World. The first indication that this might not be the vacation to end all vacations came about 3:30 PM. James looked up at me and asked, "Daddy, later today are we going to do anything fun??"
Shamu was cool.
Forgot to reapply and got sunburned. Live and learn.
Got back to the hotel in time to see Fresno State dominate in Game 2. Yay!
Wednesday: San Diego Zoo. The zoo is big. Really, really big. I mean, I don't think you truly understand how mindbogglingly huge this thing is. We saw, like, a fifth of it. Maybe. James loved the reptiles and yelling "Hi! Hi!" to people as we rode the tram.
Got home (on purpose) in time to watch all of Game 3 of the CWS. It was a drag not being in Fresno when the Dogs won the National Championship. There was nobody to hoot with. We did see a guy at breakfast one day wearing a Georgia State cap, but we took the high road and chose to smile politely.
Thursday: Legoland. Legoland is...well...how does one say this? Okay. Legoland is boring. Granted, a lot of things were closed, but what was open was just pretty boring. There were a lot of things made of legos. And that was pretty much that.
Friday: Wall-E/PetCo Park. Wall-E is a great movie. Great as in "classic." Run, do not walk, to see Wall-E.
Friday: Wall-E/PetCo Park. Wall-E is a great movie. Great as in "classic." Run, do not walk, to see Wall-E.Petco Park is very nice. There were almost too many fan amenities. TV's everywhere, to the point of distraction. The game was fun. Steve Garvey threw out the first pitch. Retro 1978 uniforms were worn...and for you non-baseball fans out there, you haven't lived until you've seen a '78 Padres uni. The Mariners looked somewhat less hideous. The key element of the game was the 18 men that Seattle left on base. 18. Now, I'm no mathematician (wait...), but that comes out to two guys left on base on average every inning. And they still won! Remarkably bad baseball. But what do you expect when the worst team in the AL plays the worst team in the NL?
Saturday: Angels/Dodgers. Yes. I was there. If there is anything worse than watching your favorite team lose to one of your least favorite teams, it's watching your favorite team give up NO HITS and STILL LOSE!On the plus side, we were in foul ball territory. A guy in the row in front of us caught one. The guy in the seat in front of me dropped one over the edge. And another guy stole one right out of my hands after it caromed off the facade behind us.
We also got to see a bunch of old Dodgers. These were guys I grew up booing like crazy. We saw Steve Garvey for the second consecutive day. Also Bill Russell, Jerry Reuss, Bob Welch, and lots more. Oh yeah, and Tommy Lasorda. I didn't boo, but only because I was clad in red and had a family to think of.
Sunday: Driving day. We were very glad to get home. Suffice it to say that James was not on his best behavior during this trip. So the general feeling upon return was, "Well, we did that." In the future we may look back on this week fondly. But I kind of doubt it.
Live and learn.
posted by Thurman8er @ 1:51 PM
5 Comments:
A no-hitter and still lose! Don't you just love baseball.
Yep, I was glad to see someone's "FSU" as in Fresno win it all.
Hang in there with James for they all have there moments. Perhaps a week at Bible Camp would do him well? He's invited to ours for next year.
Enjoy the rest of your summer.
Retro? 1978 is "retro"? When I think "retro", it's more like, well, the 50"s.
I like your new "photo pose"! Lego Batman is cool too!
With kids, you live and learn A LOT! Especially vacations. We wanted for years to just drive up the coast of CA, OR, and WA, so we did it one summer and Jan and I LOVED it. To this day our kids talk about how utterly boring and useless that trip was to them!
And LegoLand ... that's a no brainer. I can't believe anyone even thought up that place, let alone anyone actually going there, but it is a huge hit with elementary schools around SoCal.
So much happened while I was gone. I was completely out of the loop. But you were there for baseball history. That is something to look back on, though not as great as time with the kid. Now that's something to remember.
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