The four of us left the CG at 10:45 and drove to the stadium - lots of traffic. We found a place to park and walked about 1/2 mile to the stadium where there was a long line waiting to gain admission. You have to go through a metal detector and empty your bags and pockets and no aerosol cans are permitted. With all the suntan lotion that was "confiscated" sitting on a table, no one should have entered the stadium without plenty of sunscreen.
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| Melissa and I thought we should wear shower caps in case of rain and maybe extra toilet paper would be a good idea! |
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| This is the line waiting to get into the games. That brick building is the Little League Museum! |
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| No aerosol cans allowed in the stadium. So, everyone was putting on sunscreen that spectators had to leave behind when entering the stadium. |
We were told that people had gotten in line around midnight and "camped out" to get good seats today. From 8 AM on there was a continuous line of folks waiting to get in. It was crazy! We were fortunate to get good seats up the steep hill looking directly towards home plate. We had a great view of the in field, but were not able to see the outfielders. It was a very hot day and we were in the sun the entire time! We were at the games from 11:45 to 5:45 and enjoyed every minute. Both the international (Mexico vs. Japan) and the USA games (Red Land from near Harrisburg and Texas) went "to the wire" with Japan and Red Land being victorious. We left our seats 1/2 way through the international game to get a soda, bottle of water, 2 hot dogs, and a large bag of kettle corn. That was our food and drinks for the entire day! It was too hard to get up and down the hill and get through all the crowds. We were part of a record setting day - 45,000 people attended the USA game, the most ever! Both games were "nail bitters", but fortunately the right teams won! Both Japan and Red Land were undefeated coming into today's games and we were so happy they both got into the World Series Game tomorrow. It should be an exciting one!
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| Our view of the field from our chairs on the steep hill! |
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| What a great setting for the Little League stadium. |
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| The Good Year Blimp was there for both games. |
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| It was very hot and sunny and the "boys" didn't want their faces or their necks to get sunburned! |
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| Japan in the outfield! |
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| One of the coaches for Texas who said he would shave his dread locks if they would win the series! |
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| Time for the National Anthem and the start of the USA Championship game! |
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| There are on about 3200 stadium bleachers and all the rest of the spectators sit on the surrounding hills! |
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| We could really see better than this photo shows! |
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| This is the pitcher for Red Land! |
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| Red Land wins in the bottom of the 6th inning! So exciting! |
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| Let the celebration begin! |
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| They are overjoyed! |
We were back to the CG by 6:45 and decided to have a Happy Hour with margaritas (I had sangria) and some crackers and grapes. We had a fun time talking about future trips and adventures we would like to do together including the remainder of our trip this September, October, and November. We all feel that trips and adventures are enhanced when shared!
At 8:15 we decided we should have dinner and then get back together to play cards. Ken sauteed onions, peppers and some meat to put on our salads while I worked on this blog and downloaded photos. What a guy!
Over to Chuck and Melissa's motorhome to play cards from 9 to 10:30. The women won Up the River! Another memorable day!
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