Yankees

Well, today was a relaxing day. We slept in and did laundry, how exciting, right? I took a walk with Joan to get a pedicure. My aching feet were in need of one. We were waiting for Keith, Nicole and Madison to come by after their errands but unfortunately they never made it by to see us:(

Erick got Yankees tickets from our brother-in-law Rich (bigtime Yankee fan) for the 7:05 game. Alexia was dressed in her Jeter T-shirt, fitting right in with every other person at the stadium. Seriously, more than half the adults at the game wore game shirts, it was unbelievable. We got to the stadium about 4:45 because we wanted to head over to Monument Park to see all the historic Yankee Greats like Mantle, DiMaggio, Babe Ruth and Gehrig. At 4:45 there were hundreds of people waiting to get in more than two hours before the game on a Monday nite. Wow!

They let us into the park at 5:05 and by 5:14 they were no longer letting people in line to go to the park, bummer. So we walked around the stadium, watched batting practice and took some pictures. We decided to get something to eat before we took our seats, way, way up in the top of the bleachers. No lie, it was the 2nd to last row from the very top...nose bleed section, literally (more on that later).

Alexia was asking about a section in the outfield, if they hit the ball over that wall if it would be a homerun, sure enough A-Rod was up and hit a homerun right where she mentioned. She looked at me and said, we need to talk about that more often so they get more homeruns.

Around the 6th inning Alexia's nose started bleeding and it wouldn't stop. We headed to the ladies room to try to get control of it and decided not to trek all the way back to our seats afterwards and left about 10:00. The Yankees were already up 11-3 anyways so we knew they would win.

We're so glad that we went to the game, it was a great time. Since it will be the last time we're able to go to a game in this historic 85 yr old park because they are tearing it down after this season. We could see the beautiful new park right next door, it had these white columns and gold lettering, stunning and it should be with a price tag of $1 Billion.

On the way home we followed traffic out of the stadium. We had to drive north since there was no way to drive south. So we got off the highway and drove a couple of back roads in the Bronx. Yikes. Then we saw the sign to go south. We take the road and the road goes around and down to a dead end next to the water. What the heck! We got a little nervous wondering where the heck we were. A guy comes from out of the darkness towards our car. Hearts begin to race. He approaches the car. He tells us that this happens all the time and to go back up and make the next right. I think my heart went 30 seconds without beating. We left and found our way home amongst the very aggressive NY drivers. That was fun.