New York, New York!!






This weekend we had our first trip with my new travel company, Sun and Sports Travel.  We loaded a bus at 6:30am and were on our way by 6:35.  I had gone around the parking lot before boarding talking to the people I had previously only "known" through email and found them all to be kind and friendly.  Our trip down was uneventful.  We got to know a few of the people sitting closest to us and we all watched the Oriole's highlight video from last year.  Dakota and his friend Logan were the only children aboard, but they were well behaved and excited to get to the stadium.  As we got to New York there was a heavy downpour, but it had stopped by the time we parked the bus and everyone disembarked and headed over to Yankee Stadium.  We took pictures and walked around a bit and then the gates opened at 11am and we went inside.  We headed up to the Malibu Rooftop Deck for our luncheon and got to know a few more people while we munched on hot dogs, hamburgers and popcorn.  Everyone seemed to be enjoying themselves and came over to tell me what a good time they were having.  We walked around a bit and then settled in our seats for the game.

The game was fairly uneventful at the start and by the fourth inning, we headed to the Yankee Museum to see what it held.  There was alot of great items to see including the World Series rings and trophies.  There were displays on Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Thurmon Munson.  They had baseballs signed by everyone that was ever a Yankee and a statue of Don Larson and Yogi Berra, who pitched and caught a perfect game.  My older son really enjoyed this, as it was right up his sports trivia loving alley!  We all got some great pictures and headed back to the game.

Just before the seventh inning started, my husband made a statement that this was going to be the inning that propelled the Orioles to the playoffs.  We laughed at him, but they started getting base hits!  My husband left and went to the bathroom and while he was gone, someone hit a home run! Then more hits and another home run!  We were now winning 7-3!!  Of course my oh-so-vain husband had to rub it in when he came dancing back up the aisle from the bathroom, but the small Oriole fan base was on their feet and cheering on our team.  We ended up winning the game and a bus full of happy people departed a few minutes ahead of schedule from the Bronx.

The ride home seemed a bit longer than the ride up, but we watched the Ravens Super Bowl video before stopping for food and a stretch at one of the rest stops on 95.  We got back to our park and ride at 9:15.  Everyone seemed satisfied and looking forward to our next trip and I went home and fell into bed, sleeping soundly after a great experience.








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