This afternoon I had a great time going to the Long Island Ducks game with Amanda and the kids, I'm so glad we got to do this while Robert was working and Jim was at his Barntique Village shop. We only stayed through 4 innings but I really enjoyed spending time with them.
What a beautiful time I had in Milwaukee with Jesse, one of our baseball trips for this season! I arrived at 9:45am on Sunday and I spent several hours waiting for Jesse because his flight wasn’t due in until 2:15pm, that’s just how the flight times worked out for us. I had a lovely lunch in the airport and then waited at the gate to see Jesse walk toward me with a smile on his face and another passenger with him also smiling, she looked at me and said “You have a really nice son” I agree 100%!! We had several choices near the hotel for meals and after walking over to Walmart for some drinks and snacks we had dinner at Noodles & Co and then just hung out and relaxed in the hotel for the evening.
On Monday I had us booked for a ballpark tour and we really enjoyed it, I learned so much and neither Jesse or I knew about Bud Selig and his fight to keep a baseball team in Milwaukee, we really only knew him as the Commissioner of baseball for many years. The tour was fantastic and so was our tour guide.
After the tour we walked quite a ways so that I could see the Fonz statue by the Riverwalk, it was almost 4 miles and Jesse was in a bit of pain after that but we had a nice meal at a restaurant nearby called Rock Bottom and while we were having our food I found amazing seats on stub hub 6th row behind home plate and couldn’t believe that they were only $45 each, I snagged them up quick and we took an Uber back to the hotel to get ready for the game.
We met up with my friend Paul Rodriguez from my ballpark stampeders group and we stamped our books together and then he went to his seat and Jesse and I went to ours, we had a great time as we always do no matter the outcome of the games.
On tuesday we went to a couple thrift stores nearby and that was fun!! We saw another game tuesday night and then again on wednesday during the day. Wednesday night we had dinner at a restaurant about 2 blocks from the hotel and my friend Paul joined us and it was nice to sit and chat with him.
Thursday morning Jesse and I packed up and left the hotel and went to the IHop in the parking lot of the hotel for breakfast and then took an Uber to the airport and we both flew home that day, I had a long layover in Baltimore and got home late that night but it was a great trip and I look forward to another one in September where we will be hitting a couple California ballparks!!
