Lets Go Red Sox

So as some of you may or may not know, Ian's all time favorite baseball team is the Boston Red Sox - and any team playing against the New York Yankees. In light of this fact, we planned our whole vacation around the Red Sox's play schedule. We arranged our trip to California to coincide with Boston's series against the Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles so that we could see them play, not once but twice!

The first game we went to was a night game and my sisters and their families joined us for the game. I was surprised that little two year old Millie was good for the whole game. Of course she spent most of the night playing around with the binoculars but that's part of what makes her so cute! She was so pre-occupied with them she wouldn't even look at me for the picture.

The game went to almost 11:00 which is way past Chelsea's bedtime, but even with all the noise she fell asleep. She even slept through the firework show at the end of the game. I guess there really is some truth behind the phrase "sleep like a baby"!!!

About half of the crowd were Boston fans. I was actually surprised by how many Red Sox fans were there! My sisters were good Angels fan and they wore all their Angels gear. They even dressed my nieces up in Angels outfits. I tried my best to convince Chelsea to move over to the Red Sox Nation, but my sister was having none of that! She even booed me!

The game was really good and we had a good time, in spite of the drunk fans behind us that kept yelling profanities. Sadly the Red Sox lost the game, but it was still fun to see them play live.

The next game we went to was a day game and it was just the two of us, so we splurged and got really close tickets so Ian could be up close and personal with the players. We got there early so we could see them warm up. However our tickets were right by the Angels dug out and so all the Red Sox players were across the field from us! But I got to see my favorite Boston player, Jason Varitek, walk right in front of us, that was pretty cool!

It was a fun game but we were sitting in the sun for 4 hours and we both got fried! It was a good game and the Red Sox looked like they were going to win after Youkilis hit a two run home run, but in the 7th inning the Angels rallied and came back to win the game. That darn rally monkey! Ian was very disappointed and a little upset that we didn't get to see the Red Sox win, but it was still a good time - minus the sunburns!