Day 4- New York City Day 1

NEW YORK CITY

On Friday, we left early from our Delaware Hotel and headed towards the city.  We drove over the Staten Island Bridge into Brooklyn, up to Queens, and parked before heading to the Mets-Padres game at noon.  We took a dead-end turn walking to the game so we got there late.

Citi Field with the big apple on the left

Me catching the ball Maybin tossed me

When we got there and realized that our tickets were for WAY upstairs! Ha  So we  sat up there and (OH! Sad and important side note- I still didn’t have my voice back from earlier games so I couldn’t be too vocal.)  Eventually we went downstairs after the Mets took a 2-0 lead, and we stood out down the left field line.  After a while, we found a lazy ticket checker, and snuck into the bleachers in left center field.  We were right next to the giant big apple.  While there, Cameron Maybin hit a homerun and I used all the power I could to cheer for SD  an inning later SD scored on an error by the shortstop. We then continued our tour around the stadium.  We ended up getting seats down the leftfield line around 3^rd base and then slowly worked our way closer towards the dugout.  Garrett and Eric couldn’t make it down because they hung back to buy a hat, and when they came back, our ticket slacker was checking again.  Too bad.  In the meantime, San Diego scored another run to go up 3-2 and Bell came in and got the save.  Solid. After the game, I got buddy Black to wink to me, and then Maybin peaked his head out of the dugout and tossed 2 balls into the crowd, the second of which, he looked around and, noticing my Padres Jersey, tossed the second one to me!! I was so excited! Haha

Citi Field was our favorite stadium as a consensus.  It was huge, but it didn’t feel huge.  I enjoy fun outfield walls, and Citi has lots of rises and drops as well as ins and outs.  The atmosphere was good, and I just liked it overall.

After the game, we walked towards the Tennis grounds but it was all fenced up.  So we didn’t go in, but we did get a picture with the old apple.  We then got our metro tickets, and we headed back to the parking garage to repack and head into the city.

Times Square with all our luggage

We were to meet Lynne at her apartment at 6 and got there at 5, so we headed to Times Square to get us some tickets to a Broadway show.  We were hoping for like 30-40 dollar tickets at the discount/day-of stand.  Well, we were in for a rude awakening when the man told us the cheapest tickets were 61 dollars for some show no one had heard of.  So we decided to spend a little more to go to a better show and got tickets to Phantom of the opera on Broadway!  We then headed over to Lynne’s apartment to meet her and get the instructions.  We were greeted by the bell hop and he called up and cleared us for entry.  We were all trying to be as proper as possible. Haha we then went upstairs and Lynne quickly went over instructions- Luggage in the Kitchen, no food in the apartment, how to use a TV remote, where exactly we could sleep on the floor, and most importantly not to stand over the toilet- before she left us to ourselves and headed home to Connecticut.

Times Square after Phantom

We settled in and then got ready to head out to Phantom.  Phantom was pretty fun.  We were pretty tired though, and some of us started dozing off a little.  I had never seen the play, but knew the famous songs at least, so it was nice to see how it fit into a story.  Afterwards, we walked around Times Square, up the street a few blocks towards the David Letterman studio, got some Gyro’s for dinner, hung out in Times Square for a little (we couldn’t take the food home…) then went home and got a good night’s rest.

Game prediction standings:

Mitch      3-1 *

Eric         3-1

Taylor     3-1

Garrett    1-3

*asterisks denotes a correct score prediction.

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: 18

Rainouts/ hours: 3.5

Extra innings: 6

Car hours: 16.75

Miles: 900

States:  9