Kj's Baseball Collection: Fenway Park

One of the two baseballs I got at Fenway Park is a blue baseball. This one says Fenway Park on one side and Built in 1912 on the other side. The other strip of the ball has a view of the field. It is different than many of the other balls of field views, as it shows the infield and not just an outfield view that could be any park since the Green Monster is also obviously there.

Mik's Mini Bat Collection: Red Boston Red Sox

The second mini bat Mik got at Fenway Park is a regular Boston Red Sox logo one. He choose the one that is red on the top half and natural on the bottom half. The main reason for the color choice being his favorite color is red, but it also seemed fitting to have a red mini bat for a team with red in their name. The mini bat has the circle with red socks in it Boston Red Sox logo.

Mik's Mini Bat Collection: Fenway Park

At Fenway Park Mik got two mini bats. This one is green on the top half and natural on the bottom half. It says Fenway Park Established 1912.

Mik’s Food Scrapbook: Fenway Park

Mik did not have much to eat at the actual game, but where we ate before the game is still sort of in Fenway Park. Game On is located in one of the corners of Fenway Park, although it can only be accessed from outside the park. Here Mik got Fish & Chips. They were not that good in his opinion and he did not even eat much of them. He did, however, fill up on helping eat the brownie sundae I ordered.

At the game I had a Lobster Roll and Mik tried a bite of it. He did not like it, but that is because it was his first time trying lobster and he now knows he just does not like lobster. He did admit the bun/bread was very good. It was the same type of bun the hot dogs were on and if he had been hungry he would have gotten a hot dog. He thought they could not be too bad of hot dogs because the bun is so awesome.

Normally I get the ice cream in a helmet, but this time Mik got it. At Fenway they serve it with the most ice cream we have ever seen in a helmet and it was still only $5. The ice cream is not all that special, as it is just soft serve, but at least you really get your money’s worth.

A Second Atlanta Braves Game Added to Itinerary

When I was looking at the Braves schedule about a month ago I noticed they are retiring Greg Maddux's number the day after we already were going to the game on July 16, 2009. It has been annoying me for a while that we were missing the number retiring by one day. I finally decided we should just stay in Atlanta one more day, see the number retire, hit the road for the D.C. area, and the Nats game the next night.

Today Dad called and got us seats for the game. For once we decided to go for the best handicap seats available, which really do not sound all that amazing, as they were only $30 a piece. Should be interesting to compare the two different sections, though. I assume the number will be retired before the game, so we will probably not stay for the game since we will have already seen the game the day before.

Day 48: Morristown National Park

When I originally made the itinerary for the trip we were going to go to the Sports Museum of America in New York City today, however, it has since closed. Thus instead we avoided the big city and stayed in New Jersey today. We headed to the Morristown National Park in Morristown, New Jersey.

There is not that much to see at Morristown National Park or at least not things that are accessible. I really expected more since the building by the Ford Mansion says that it is a museum, but it really is just one room with colonial period objects. Yeah, interesting, but not much different than the stuff I have seen in Alexandria, Virginia, and at least in Alexandria they have things they knew were used by George Washington and not just things that might have been.

It was not a total waste as it is still cool to see the historic site, but it is kind of sad when the highlight is walking along the stones in the ground that show where the outline of Fort Nonsense once stood. I guess it might be a good place to visit if you go inside Ford Mansion, but it was not worth doing since Mik could not go inside the house. Of course, I understand it not being accessible due to it being from the 1700s and I see nothing wrong with keeping its historical accuracy by not adding accessibility. You know what would be cool, though. A movie tour of the house as an alternative experience like the Finding Nemo Submarine ride at Disneyland has (not that we ever have seen that, though). They do have a movie reenactment type thing at the museum and the Jockey Hollow Visitor Center, but seriously reading about the time period is way more entertaining than those videos. Anyways what really got me tired of the place was that after stopping at a few of the stops it seemed all the signs got to be very repetitive.

Car Sticker Update: New York Yankees

The main team shop did not have just a Yankees logo sticker. Dad was thinking of going to one of the souvenir shops across the street, but I decided we should just get the Inaugural Season one. It is a view of the field with a small NY Yankees logo in the upper left corner and a small Inaugural Season logo in the upper right corner. It seemed fitting to get it since it is new this year and says the year of our road trip.