Day 11 - Pittsburgh

Day 11 - Pittsburgh

I tell you what, there was only one thing better than waking up at noon at Gray's Grandma's house. The better thing was the breakfast that was waiting for us upstairs, prepared by Mr. and Mrs. Jodon. There was so much good stuff, especially the pancakes. After breakfast, we lounged around downstairs in the basement. Jason and Kyle were playing on the PS3 (no converter required inside), so Gray, Cole, their cousin and I played a game of Scattergories. It was pretty awesome, Gray totally destroyed the rest of us, but it was fun. We ate an early dinner of spaghetti, which once again was amazing, and then the four of us plus Mr. Jodon, Cole, and their two cousins headed into Pittsburgh for the Pirates game. It was a nice little drive into Pittsburgh, although we had to create our own detour after a bridge on our route was found to be uncrossable. Finally, we got into the park just in time for the first pitch. We headed up to our seats in the third deck and sat down just in time to see Matt Holliday of the Rockies jack a homer to left-center field. After a couple innings, the crowd was very small, as expected, so we all slowly made our way down to the 1st deck and sat down about halfway between third base and the outfield wall, probably 10 rows back. It was a really nice seat, and nobody was anywhere near us. We had a pretty good time down there, the Pirate and Parrot mascots were hilarious, and the Pirates racked up 8 runs and won the game 8-4. It turned out being one of the last games as a Pirate for Jason Bay, as he was traded to the Red Sox on July 31st, 3 days later. It was a really fun game, we had bought a foam Pirate sword as the souvenir of the night, so we fought with those at random points. We headed back to the house and hung out for a little while before heading to bed, sleeping comfortably once again on the couch/air mattresses. Hooray.