81st MLB All-Star Game

As some of you may know, I recently joined the smart phone world when my dinosaur phone finally called it quits after about three years of duty and I got the iPhone. So, this is my first post from on the road! Andy and I spent last night in J Tree again and headed east early this morning, arriving at a KOA in Benson, Arizona not too long ago.

As Andy mentioned in his last post, we went to Tuesday night's all star game in Anaheim. It was pretty hard to pass up the chance given this trip and that we happened to be in the same city. (Well, more or less the same city. Side note: still don't get the Angels switch to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. LA, you have the Dodgers and they're close but definitely not the same city. I know there's some history there but it just seems unnecessary.)

Anyways, we got to the park early again, ever afraid of the LA traffic which, by the way, definitely lives up to the hype. Cars everywhere! We poked around the game area again to get more free stuff and try our luck at the 80mph radar gun again. I did hit 76! But 80 is kinda nuts given the setting. After hanging out there for a bit we went into the park to check out what was going on. This being our third time to Angels Stadium, we were quite familiar with the grounds so there was no need for the usual tour. Instead, we posted up along the third baseline hoping for some foul balls. It was the only section they were letting fans go (mind you it was still only about 3 o'clock and the game started at 5) so it was real crowded. The American League was taking BP and we didn't get any foul balls but Josh Hamilton and Ian Kinsler came over to sign some autographs. I had the BP ball I got in Cleveland and Andy had an all star game hat on so we got each of those signed by Kinsler which was kind of cool.

After that we spent some time walking around, I got a hat and then we found our seats which were in the upper deck near the right field foul pole in the second row of the section. But, once again we had to deal with the sun and this time it was pretty brutal since the game was early.

It was a really entertaining game though, for those of you who didn't watch it. It seemed as though the AL was going to come away with their 14th straight win when they jumped ahead early. But Atlanta's Bryan McCann stole the show with a bases clearing double to put the NL up. Despite threatening in the 9th, the boys from the AL couldn't muster a comeback and the NL won for the first time since 1996. We got to see some great pitching on both sides and all the stars of the show, so it was a really awesome time.

The next day we spent on Redondo Beach and headed out yesterday from LA for good this time. Thanks so much to Nate, Harold and Tiffany for having us! It was great spending our time there and we had a blast.

So, we are headed east for good now. We're on our way to Texas and Florida and finally up the east coast home. Less than a month left which is really hard to believe but it will be nice to settle down after all these adventures. It's been a wild ride and unforgettable so far, but we're not done yet! Plenty more stories to come so stay tuned. We hope you all are enjoying the blog...we have lots of pictures coming up too so be on the lookout for those. Until next time!