My first baseball game and its a Yankee game!! What a blast. Jeff and I left Friday morning about 11:00am. We got to the game a little early and we were able to watch the Yankee's practice. Jeff was about 2 feet away from catching one of the practice balls. The seats we had were really great. We were on the bottom level about 10 rows up between 1st and 2nd base. We were far enough back to be under the roof but close enough to see everything. The entire ambiance of New York and Yankee Stadium was so exciting. From the locals tawkin bout the game, to the vendors yelling to sell you something, and lets not forget about the ballpark hotdogs!! This was a particulary exciting game because, as most of you know, Arod only need one more home run to hit 500. Unfortunately it did not happen until the NEXT night!! DOH But so exciting evey time he got up to bat. The fans went nuts!! And contrary to some opinions (Boston fans you know who you are. . .LOL) the fans were super friendly! We even had a local give Jeff some free sausage and peppers and at $12.00 just for a beer, we needed all the free food we could get!! Below are some pitcures of the practice and of the game. There is also a video from when Arod went up to bat, there 500 flashes trying to catch the 500 home run. Pretty cool. Then on the way (we got home 3:30am!!) we hit the coolest lightening storm I have ever seen. I posted some videos of that as well. It was on the way home half exhausted enjoying the ride with my truley wonderful husband that a realized this is why I love New York. Baseball games, mountain, lakes, lightening storms, the whole nine. We sometimes take for granted all the wonderful things we have right under our nose.
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