Late summer game, part 1

Roger and I went to our second Boston Red Sox home game this season. This one was against the Baltimore Orioles. Our weekend fun began earlier than we thought. We hadn't planned to leave Vermont until around lunch time, thinking we had tickets to a night game. But when we checked the website, we realized the game started at 1:15!

So we hustled our stuff into the car and made a mad dash to Boston. Fortunately, traffic wasn't very heavy and we knew exactly where we wanted to park. (It's the cheapest place to park in the Back Bay and only $12 all day with Red Sox ticket stubs!) When we got there, it was the top of the first and the O's had a base hit.

It was a beautiful day! Lots of sun and few clouds, good day for a day game indeed.

The Sox were down through the fifth inning before we had a 4-run sixth, finally taking the lead. We finally won it in the tenth. Manny extended his hit streak with a single and Gabe Kapler ran from second on an error for the win.

After the game, we walked down Yawkey Way and eventually over to Newbury Street. We managed to squeeze in some eyeglass shopping time at my favorite spectacle store, SEE. (I had bought my last pair of eyeglasses from one of their stores in Ann Arbor.) Roger helped me pick out a nice semi-rimless pair, plastic frame along the top in a warm tortoiseshell color. Nerdy cute! I get them in 10 days.

We drove to the Hotel@MIT (we had booked a room because we thought we had a night game). Later we walked over to Kendall Square to catch "Little Miss Sunshine" - a very cool movie. And then closed the evening with two pints of UFO Hefeweizen at the MIT-cool Miracle of Science Bar.