To celebrate our 4 year anniversary, Matt and I went to a Red Sox game in Tampa Bay. We've been planning this excursion since July. We knew that baseball in the fall, right before playoffs would be awesome. As the baseball season continued along and the lead the Red Sox had over the Yankees went from 14 games to 1 1/2, our excitement for this game was huge.
Before the game we went to dinner at P.F.Chang's. Would you expect any other place? I ordered my favorite Chang's spicy shrimp (mild) and Matt got Kung pow chicken. We got lettuce wraps too. The food as usual was amazing. Hopefully this will satisfy our P.F.Chang's fix for a while.
After dinner we drove to the ball park, Tropicana Field. We left an hour before the game planning on seeing batting practice. We did not have tickets and were going to buy them at the gate. The traffic for the game was ridiculous. They did not have a good plan to get the stadium and we waited for 1 hour and 30 min. in traffic just to park. While we sat in the car we saw hundreds of Red Sox fans waiting as well. They seemed to out number the Devil Ray fans. Sweet!! We ended up parking far away in some sketchy lot with 1,000's of other cars. We felt a little better parking next to a Jaguar because if someone was to steal a car, ours was not the nicest.
Our seats were in the upper deck, but for $13 a piece who can complain. They were pretty good! Matsusaka was pitching which was neat. Plus the ballpark is unique as it is indoors. I was actually cold at times. The game was great, but the 9th inning was the best. The Red Sox came back from behind to win 8 - 6. Jason Varitek lead off with a home run and then Dustin Pedroia had a base hit single and then Lugo hit a 2 run homer. The place went wild. Everyone was cheering "Let's go Red Sox!" as well as "Yankee's Suck!" It was so neat to be there. The game got over at 11:30 pm and then Matt and I drove 2 hours home. We stopped for Dunkin Donuts iced coffee for the ride home. It was a great anniversary excursion!! Well worth the wait.
I took this picture of "Tek" earlier in the night, not knowing that he would lead off the comback hitting in the ninth inning.
When we got home from the game at 1:30 am we were greeted by this giant frog. I thought it was funny.
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