April 22, 2007
Take me out to the ball game
Today me and my wife went to see the Chicago Cubs vs. St. Louis Cardinals game. She got tickets for this on Friday through an online site, it was reputable though, moreso than the ticket scalpers trying to rip you off. We were going to take the train, but a guy on a motorcycle took his sweet time at the ATM we missed it by about a minute. The train would of cost us both $10 bucks to ride both ways. We ended up driving otherwise we would not make it in time for the game. Car needed gas though, at $2.86 a gallon it cost $27 to fill up.
Traffic was really bad because in Chicago all they do is work on the roads, it’s not like the cars actually have to ever use them some day. Adding insult to injury, because we were running behind the street parking was for the most part taken. Found a gas station that was basically selling itself out for parking, $25 bucks to park the car. At least we were within very reasonable walking distance to the ballpark. A very minor detour 2 blocks north to pick up our tickets, then 2 blocks back down to Wrigley Field, we made it to the start of the game.
Being about 1:30 PM, we didn’t eat anything so decided to get lunch before finding our seats, $20 for the food. Walked up a lot of ramps, then some more ramps, and then stairs to find our seats. Middle of a row, wonderful, people had to stand up so we could carefuly slide our way past them, food in hand, to our seats. Game was going pretty good until a few hours later at about the sixth or seventh inning, needed to stretch and get a snack. Back down the ramps to the bottom again. Had to walk all over the place down there to find this stupid lemon smoothy thing I loved as a kid, she had cotton candy, $10 for snacks.
The Cubs somehow tied the game at 9 in the 9th inning, but then in the overtime St. Louis Cardinals hit a homer with 2 on base making the score 12 to 9. We admitted the Cubs defeat and decided to go home. Overall, the day was a little expensive at over $100 spent. Sometimes there is more to life than worring about money, and just spending the day with someone you love is one of those lessons.
