On to Comerica Park!

Hello!

Up this morning about 7 am and truly, I am still exhausted!  Somewhere on this trip, I am going to have to catch up on sleep, because I certainly need it!

Today we were scheduled to go to the Tigers/Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim game at 1:10 pm this afternoon.  So … first things first, and that would be breakfast.  As we had been unable to find a Big Boy restaurant yesterday, we decided to go to one we knew was actually there!  We invited Sandy Grockau, who is probably my oldest forever friend to join us, as she has been kind enough to obtain the Tiger tickets for us.  (Sandy works for a company that does Ford Motor Company’s PR and advertising – she is truly “the” woman to know if you are looking for tickets around town!!) 

Baseball Ferris wheel!

What a great idea!

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Really good breakfast – even though I had a Big Boy combination plate with hash browns and a salad with blue cheese dressing; R had the friend shrimp platter, and Sandy had – how odd! – a real breakfast!

On to the ballgame about 11:45 am; down the I-94 freeway to the I-75, and we were there!  Sandy also had a parking pass right next to the stadium, as well as a pass to the Tiger Den, where we entered the stadium.  A really nice sized crowd already gathering and, before we went to find our seats, we first had a ride on the baseball Ferris Wheel!  SO FUN!  Our seats were in Section 113, which was toward the end of the first base line, but the really wonderful things were that 1) we were the front row of the section, and 2) we were in the SHADE – all afternoon!  That’s the way to see an afternoon game!  As we had really just had breakfast, none of us were particularly hungry.  Sandy and I shared a large freshly popped popcorn, and I had some frozen lemonade.  R had an Italian sausage, which he said was excellent!  One thing I did notice was that there were many, many people in ORANGE, which is one of the Tigers colors (obviously).  R insisted that I get some sort of Tiger T-shirt, but my heavens, are those things expensive if you get them at the stadium!  I finally found a really nice bright ORANGE T-shirt with Detroit Tigers on the front in script, and it didn’t break the bank.  And further, orange definitely is NOT my color!

Sandy

Me!

Love the door hardware!

Great idea for a fountain!

As I have been an Anaheim Angels of Los Angeles [what a clunky name for a baseball team!] fan for years (from when I lived five minutes away from Anaheim Stadium and it was me, Nolan Ryan and our 5,000 closest friends!) but also loved the Tigers as a child, I figured I was in a win-win position!  I’d be happy no matter who won – although R pointed out that conversely (and perversely), I would be unhappy no matter who lost.  Oh well!  Angels won 11-4, and while that sounds like a blow-out, it actually didn’t feel like that while the game was going on.

Me with Ernie Harrell statute

View of the field and scoreboard

In our seats!

A beautiful day for a ballgame!

Game over about 4:25 pm and then back to the car for a quick exit from the parking structure, and then began the homeward drive.  As we were running right into rush hour traffic (of course!) the freeways were definitely backed up, with some completely stopped.  Finally, we were able to find our way out through the Eastern Market and then to Gratiot.  Dropped Sandy off about 5:00 and headed back to the hotel for (hopefully) an early night. 

Unfortunately, by this time we were both hungry which meant that we needed to find someplace to eat!  Decided on P.F. Chang’s at the Partridge Creek Mall, about 6 miles away.  Made our way slowly through some really major road construction, and finally got to the restaurant.  No wait, which was nice, and we ate off the appetizer menu, which was wonderful:  Shrimp wontons, pork wontons, egg rolls, chicken lettuce wraps and finally – and the best, some dry-rubbed Korean ribs … wonderful!  Waddled our way back to the car, and back to the hotel about 9 pm.  Blogging now, and then definitely to bed!

More tomorrow, as we make our way north to Sanilac Petroglyph State Park, which we have been wanting to visit for years!  Hopefully MUCH better than the effigy mounds; we will keep all fingers crossed!

Lots of love,

m

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