Day 14- Final official day of the tour

Part of Garrett's hat collection

After a late night, we again slept in a little too long, but it was okay since church was not until 1:00.  We had a delicious breakfast prepared by Aunt Nan, then got ready and headed off to church.  We only made it to sacrament meeting, but were able to see a farewell and that taylor is amazing with children  He held this cute little girl through the whole meeting, helped her draw little pictures, then let her fall asleep in his arms. how cute.  (That's a little FYI for Hayley, and while we are on it, check the day count- 14, aka 2 weeks, aka i am right, you are wrong....)
We then hurried to the airport in Dayton and Dropped Eric and Garrett off with 40 minutes until take-off, but they were already checked in, had only carry-ons, and security in dayton is quick, so they were fine.  And that was when the trip officially ended.  We finished the day by coming home and having yet another delicious meal from Aunt Nan, then talked for a while, and eventually called it a day.  So here is the final score board:

Jumbotron appearances: 6

Balls from the game: 8 (Mitch, Taylor and Garrett- Tennis; Garrett-DC; Taylor-DC; Nicholai- DC; Mitch-NYM; Taylor- Balt)

Eric left his door opened SO much. haha

Promotion items: 4 (All- T-shirt in Pitt; Mich- Bobblehead in Pitt; Garrett- Hat in Cle; Mitch- backpack in Cle)

Stadium hours: 34+ 5 at tennis

Rainouts hours: 5

Extra innings: 6

Car hours: 42

Miles: 2300

States: 12

Cars acquired: 1

Shy smiles from cute athletes: 1

and Awards:

Cincy: Best hook ups, game seats, and cutest tennis girl.

Cleveland: Mike... and Gail... 'nuf said

Baltimore: Most fun non-traditional tourist city

New York:  Best city to tour and have a good time.

Boston: Best stadium

Philly: Best Fans

DC: Best Chili Dog and most balls acquired and best crazy person story

Pittsburgh: Worst fans, but best ushers and city-scape and most exciting game.

and HUGE Thank you's to:

The Jensens for great tennis and Reds tickets and hosting us

the other Jensens for housing us and letting us stay all 14 innings despite their roadtrip the next day

Lynne for housing and letting us do laundry

The Runyon's for housing us, cooking and just being amazing

and the Lazarev's for housing us and giving me something to do next week.

ALL that and so much more was greatly appreciated and helped us pull off 2 of the best weeks of our lives!  Thank you so much!

and our awesome video at: 
http://mlb.jibjab.com/view/xvy5KMuIJjmvrOkB

And the Fella's in the car

Taylor and I will road trip across the country to Provo this week, adding 4 more states to the list of states visited in august, we will restart the license plate game, and also hopefully visit Busch Stadium in St. Louis to get one more game in.  That'll be 9 stadiums from the tour, plus St. Louis, San Diego and Anaheim this month for me.  12 stadiums in 3 weeks of August for me and 17 states, including CA.

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