Day 7 - NYC and Massachusetts

Day 7 - NYC and Massachusetts

Ok we pick up the story after Josh and Jason go to sleep in the tent and Kyle and Gray go to sleep in the car. We will also be switching back to a timeline mode since I am actually writing this on the day that it happened.

6:16 AM - BOOM!!! Jason and Josh are woken up by a thunderclap and hear the rain approaching. In comes the wind, down comes one of the tents arms. So unlikely right? Anyway, the rain starts coming and the wind keeps blowing too fast, so Jason and I are stuck holding the tent up with our head while standing up in the center of the tent. Meanwhile, the tent has become saturated enough that the water has started to drip in. Finally, it gets to a point where there's no way we're going to be able to sleep in the tent.

6:39 AM - Break in the rain, Josh and Jason sprint to the car, climb into the front seat, and fall asleep.

10:00 AM - Our alarms to wake up go off. We wake up, change clothes, and get out all the stuff we need for the Mets game. Then we go check out the tent. Fortunately, it hadn't rained much more after Jason and I got in the car, so the air mattresses were only partially wet. We made good use of the 5 towels we had bought at Walmart, drying the entire interior of the tent and most of the outside too before folding it up and stuffing itinto the tent bag. After throwing all of the wet stuff into one of the dryers, we got everything else packed up and ready to go. We left around 11 AM.

12:15 PM - We arrive at Shea Stadium five minutes after game time. Coming in, we were expecting it to be an ugly stadium, but it wasn't as bad as we had expected. It did kind of have the feeling of one of the football bowl stadium in that the seats were placed as vertically as they safely could be. Check out Jason's stadium review on Kyle's blog (eastcoastbaseballroadtrip.blogspot.com) for more information and opinions on the stadium. In my opinion, it was not great but it definitely wasn't horrible, and it was definitely better than stupid Yankee Stadium. When we got into the stadium at 12:18, 8 minutes into the game, the first inning was already over, a sign of how the game was going to be. We got up to our seats, which were in a pretty nice spot on the third deck, and sat down.another inning zipped by in a matter of seconds, and it was already the third inning by 12:25. Gray and I decided to go down to the team store and get our souvenir of the game and then go get some food. In the time it took us to walk down to the first deck, buy our souvenir, come back up to the third deck, get food, and come back to our seats, three and a half innings had passed. Fortunately, the guy next to me was keeping score, so I cheated off of his scorecard and got caught up on my own scorecard. The game obviously was a pitvhers duel. It was Oliver Perez pitching for the Mets against Jamie Moyer of the Phillies. Moyer only had one shaky stretch in his 7 innings pitched. In the 4th inning, he walked two people in a row and then David Wright made him pay with an RBI single. Perez gave up a couple more hits than Moyer but was equally as effective. His only mistake was a hanging slider that Jayson Werth almost killed a camera man with over the fence in center field. Perez ended up stiking out 12 over seven and two-thirds innings. Moyer only gave up one run, but the Phillies bullpen came in and gave up two runs in the eigth inning, so we got to see Billy Wagner come in and close out the game. Overall, a very good experience. Also, a very short game. 2 hours, 20 minutes to be exact.

3:00 PM - We headed back to the car and got out of our parking lot to get on the road to Massachusetts. It was a pretty nice drive except for the stupid 55 mph speed limit and the extremely expensive gas in Connecticut.

8:00 PM - We got to our campsite and set up the tent so it could dry out and now we're heading over to Cracker Barrel!!!

11:00 PM - We ate some awesome dinner at Cracker Barrel and then headed over to the Super Stop and Shop to pick up some drinks and ice and stuff. Our waitress at Cracker Barrel told us that you could go to Staples to get Wi-Fi because they leave the Wi-Fi on at night, so now here we are updating the blog and checking facebook and things of the sort. Tomorrow we go to Boston!!! Woo Yay! We're pretty excited, but we're going to bed soon. I would imagine I'll be able to update tomorrow. So yeah. Good night..