wednesday

Headed back to St. Petersburg but this time saw the Tigers and the Devil Rays.

I bought lawn tickets for this game because I figured we already saw the Tigers play a couple games and didn't need to pay for great seats. What a pain in the ass! If you ever go to Progress Energy Park, I suggest you don't buy left field berm tickets. We went in the park and watched batting practice, bought some beer and some water and decided to go check out the lawn area. Come to find out, the ticket taking old man never should have let us in to the regular seating area. The ticket taking old lady had to call some supervisor lady named Norma. Thank God for Norma! Norma said she would walk us to the left field berm area to tell that guy to let us in, even though our tickets were already taken. A few steps outside of the gate the ticket taking old lady told Jesse he couldn't take his beer with him. Norma was waiting so Jesse threw his beer away. *gasp* When we got to the left field berm gate the ticket taking old man didn't want to let us in until Norma explained to him the other guy accidentally let us in. Then the old man didn't want to let us in with the water we had just bought. Norma told him it was okay. Whew. I was pretty annoyed at this point but Jesse reminded me that these people were just trying to do their jobs. But then when the security guy told me I couldn't bring my bottle of water I just paid $3 for at the same goddamn ball park into the area I almost lost my mind. I told him I could bring my water in and Norma said so. He said he didn't know who Norma was. But I must have looked more psycho than usual because he didn't really say anything else.

I'm torn because that whole experience sucked. But the visiting team's bullpen is right in front of the left field berm. So it felt like I was hanging out with Lance Parrish for the entire game. And we got to see Mike Maroth, Ugueth Urbina, Magglio Ordonez, Bobby Higginson, Brandon Inge, and Bob Cluck all up close! There were probably others that I can't remember right now. It was very cool.

After the game we headed to Clearwater for dinner. It rained really hard and according to the tv at the restaurant, there was a tornado watch. Nice! We went back to Lakeland and were trying to figure out what to do for the evening. I decided to drive down the road our hotel was on a little bit further. The front desk person had mentioned a mall farther down the road. We went around the corner and there was a Best Buy, Circuit City, Target and a bzillion restaurants. So that's where Lakeland buys cd's! We went to Target and they sold wine there! Jesse picked a bottle of Merlot and we bought a cork screw and headed back to the hotel.

Wednesday night was spent drinking wine and watching Survivor. Nice! Sad. I know.