Day 10- Philadelphia

        Today we woke up in Boston, got packed and ready, and headed out around 11:00. Then we had a LONG drive ahead of us. We drove from Boston through Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey (past the meadowlands where the Jets, Giants, and NJ Nets play), then pulled across the Delaware river into Philadelphia around 4:30.

Eric and the Liberty Bell

        Funny moment driving though New York: we pull up to a yellow light, and Taylor stops. I give him a hard time for not going through the yellow, so just after the light turns red, Taylor decides to take it. Haha. Illegal, but to be sure, it was safe. But right after that, there was a cop that was coming towards us, who then flipped a U-turn right after he passed us, then sped up. I think Taylor was a little nervous. He passed us and we never saw him again. Haha lesson learned.
        When we got to Philly, we parked right by Independence Hall, took a gander at that, then went into the Liberty Bell building to see the bell, went up towards the Philadelphia coin mint, then wandered around a tiny bit looking for a cheese steak place that Eric had eaten at before. We eventually found it. The other guys thought the cheesesteaks were just okay, but I loved mine. We got the car then headed down to the game.
        We snuck in just in time for the first pitch. We were way upstairs but it wasn’t bad. As we headed down to take our tour of the field, Taylor got split off from the group, and tried to slip through a concessions line to catch up, but the vendor saw him, and got in his face for cutting in line and threatened to throw him out of the stadium. Haha. We ended up behind the bullpen by the end of the game. It was a close game, then Philly blew it open with 7 runs after the 7thinning. So it turned out to be a blow out, yet a close game. We were extremely impressed with the phans in Philly and we loved the Phanatic, their mascot.

The Fellas in Philly

        We hurried back to the car after the game to get headed towards DC, and turned Gail the GPS on, but Taylor decided he was smarter than Gail. So instead of turning onto the freeway, we headed right into stadium traffic. Haha… it was okay in the end though. We sat there in traffic for 40 minutes, but then we got out into the clear and flew no problem to DC. We passed through Delaware and into Maryland just before midnight, making our total number of states visited for the day come out to seven. Solid. We pulled into DC around 1:15 and quickly got to bed.



Game prediction standings:
Eric        5-2
Taylor    5-2
Mitch     4-3 *
Garrett   2-5
*asterisks denotes a correct score prediction in Cleveland.

Scoreboard:
Jumbotron appearances: 4
Balls from the game: 2 (Mitch-NYM; Taylor- Balt)
Promotion items: 2 (Garrett- Hat in Cle; Mitch- backpack in Cle)
Stadium hours: 27
Rainouts/ hours: 3.5
Extra innings: 6
Car hours: 31.5
Miles: 1650

States: 11 (but 7 today alone- all but Ohio, Kentucky, Utah, and Colorado)