May 22, 2013
Toronto, Canada. What?!
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| the remaining 3 guys- missing Eric |
Early morning by my standards today. We woke up at 5:45 and got the cars packed,
left the Bourgeois’ a note, dropped Eric off at the train station, and were on
the highway by 7:00. That is 7am. 7am Central Time. Aka 4:45am mountain time
wake up time. I stay up that late
sometimes… I hate mornings. Good prep
for EFY coming up next week though. Those are full weeks of waking up at 5:45.
Grrrr. End rant.
Yeah, Eric is
headed back to Colorado for his sister’s high school graduation. So he is missing these few games. We drove both cars down and around Chicago,
into Indiana, then up into Michigan, where we dropped of Garrett’s car, filled
it with a bunch of Tay and Hay’s stuff at my cousin Rachael’s place near Ann
Arbor. We will leave it there for the
next 36 hours and hopefully it won’t be towed when we get back tomorrow night.
But it should be good.
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| Haylor |
We snagged some
McDonalds on the way out, our second McD’s run of today’s trip. We headed into Canada as a full car. When they
saw us at the border- a car with 4 mid-20’s kids and the girl driving- that had
to look suspicious. So we were “randomly”
selected to get searched. After a quick
search in America, we headed over the bridge and into Oh Canada! Hayley was
driving and was getting questioned on the Canada sid, and was very flustered to
say the least. Haha But in her defense. A simple question of, “Where do you
live right now?” isn’t so simple when you just graduated, don’t live with your
parents, and haven’t bought a new house yet.
We made it through without being arrested though.
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| Pano from CF |
We cruised across
Ontario without incident until we were about 50 km out of Toronto and Taylor
misled us and took us on a wrong turn.
In his defense, we all shut our phones off once we crossed the boarder
in order to not use data, etc. so we
were running off of screen shots of maps.
We made it back to the freeway and into Toronto, found a parking spot
literally under the stadium and hurried in, just in time for the 3
rd
inning! Haha. After waking up early and driving 9 hours, we made it, but really
late. I really liked the stadium. Well, relatively speaking…. I had
expectations of nothing spectacular at all, so what we saw, even though it was
a carpet field with fake foul poles, was neat.
It was all unique and fitting for Canada. They had the roof shut, as it apparently
started to pour rain once we got inside.
I wish we could have been there on a day it was opened. But we didn’t. It was very empty, as expected (afternoon
game in Canada!?) and we were able to move around freely. At one point an usher asked if we had tickets
for his section and we said our tickets were for upstairs, he shrugged, and let
us in! in the first seats we sat in, we
had a drunk man a few rows in front of us.
He was crazy and ricking the no shirt look. He started to do the wave, so I meandered up
there and helped him lead the wave. I
was without voice all day, so I wasn’t much of a help, but I really only did it
for the photo op.
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| Me and my drunk, half- naked buddy |
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fake foul poles. who knew.
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The stories of
the game were A- broken bats and B- Jose Bautista. There were at least 4 broken bats, which is
unusually high. The second story was
Jose Bautista. He went 4 for 4 plus a
walk with 2 home runs and 4 RBI’s. 1 RBI
each time he had a hit. They won 4-3 in
10 innings. Awesome game, but luckily
the Jays had J Bautista.
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| The Jays celebrating their walk-off |
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| Garrett after the game. |
After the game,
we did a little walk around the area by the stadium. We took pictures by the CN tower, but decided
against going up. Eventually we made it
back to the car and drove a little bit around the city, then headed towards
Buffalo. We stopped for a quick dinner
as well as Canadian snacks at the grocery store. We crossed back into America, but this time I
was driving. If I may say so myself,
handled the questions with a little more confidence than Hayley had! Haha we
got to my cousin Kalle and Aaron’s place around 11:30 and are getting to
bed! Niagara and Detroit tomorrow!
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| Cool view of the Stadium with the CN tower next door |
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| The group with the tower |
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| Garrett taking a selfy! |
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| The city was ALL glass. very cool. |
Stats:
KILOMETERS Traveled today: 1083 (677 miles)
Hours in the car today: 11
Miles traveled total: 2742
Hours in the car total: 48
Narcotic searches: 2
Jumbotrons: 1
MLB Baseballs: 1
Scoreboard:
Garrett 5-0
Eric 3-1
Hayley 3-2
Mitch 2*-3
Taylor 2-3
*Correctly predicted the Dodgers beating the
Brewers
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