Day 9 - Cooperstown

Day 9 - Cooperstown

In the morning, we woke up around 7 AM and started changing and packing. We hit the road around 7:45 towards Cooperstown. We stopped a few miles down the road for some McGriddles to start the day off right. It was a 4 hour drive to Cooperstown, so we settled in for the ride. Jason and I continued our quest through Expert Career Mode on Guitar Hero 3, getting down to the last couple required songs before arriving in Cooperstown. Once we got there, we got to do a little more driving to try to find parking. Considering we were there on the day before the Hall of Fame induction of 2 New York Yankees, and considering Cooperstown is in New York, I think it's safe to say that it was absolutely packed. After parking about a mile a way in some shrubbery, we made our way into the Baseball Hall of Fame. The Hall of Fame is hard to describe. It had sooooo many baseball artifacts. The main sections were focused on Babe Ruth, Blacks in Baseball, Women in Baseball, and then different sections for each era of baseball history. Once I make an online album of the pictures, I'll post a link to them on here. Anyway, the Hall of Fame was amazing, and we got most of our gift shopping done in Cooperstown. We finally left Cooperstown around 4:30 or so and made our way south to Pennsylvania to stay at our hotel in Moosic, PA, about 15 minutes from Scranton. After unpacking into our hotel room, we drove about 15 minutes to get to an Applebees. At this point, I think it's safe to say that we were all tired to the point where we were wired and everything we said was funny. After scaring everyone in Applebees with our raucous laughter, some of us more than others (cough...Jason's loud laugh scared the people next to us on more than one occasion). Anyway, we ate our three course meals (personally, I got cheesesticks, steak, and chocolate dessert) and moved back to the hotel. After the GPS took us the wrong way (again), we got back into our room. After not caring about the Brett Favre "saga" for 30 minutes of NFL Live, we watched some Baseball Tonight (surprise), and then finally crashed asleep. Pretty short/uneventful day by our standards.