Day 43 - the day we were Dodgers fans

24th August 2013

The morning started with a chat with Sar. It's bit crazy when you see how far away we are.

Our pins barely fit on the same image!!! 

We got up, showered and dressed (ouch!!!) to head back to Alcove (obviously). After that we headed straight off the the LA dodgers game against the Boston Red Sox at Dodger stadium. The traffic was ridiculous but we got there eventually. The stadium was pretty awesome.

We figured out between us what was going on - we'd not been to a baseball game before. It was great to have our dodgers tees on and be part of the crowd. It wasn't so great that we were on the losing side, but never mind. We were surprised that the fans are mixed (there's no separate seating for the visiting team) within the stadium. It's a bit awkward but interesting in terms of crowd behaviours and aggression. There were no anti-red sox chants, just a few boos every so often, but obviously, we were losing.

It's a bit crazy how pumped up everything is. There are constant cameras going round the dodgers fans such as the Kiss Cam (hilarious) and a Jump up Cam which expected poor fans to jump up and dance when it pointed at them. 

That obviously didn't work out ^^.

Each time there was a new batter, their photos came over all the screen with various stats on and, of course, their twitter accounts. Occasionally there was an accompanying video too. There were a few fitties whose twitter accounts we did take note of ha.

We had a great 8th inning which was exciting as all the fans were up and cheering. I was sat and cheering as with this burn it takes me minutes to get up - nightmare.

After the game we ready to hit the freeway towards the next hotel which was Santa Maria the halfway point between LA and San Francisco. We took the 1 and wow the drive was amazing.

Our hotel was in Santa Maria (a halfway point between LA and SF) and we ate at Red Robin. When we arrived at our hotel we had a bit of a nightmare. Something had gone wrong with our hotel (we still don't know what) and hotels.com had been trying to get hold of us to change our hotel. Thank goodness we had the car!! We had to drive about 30mins down the freeway to San Luis Obispo and although the hotel wasn't to our taste it was half an hour off our journey for tomorrow and was decent enough. Then it was time for sleep and to get ready for another day of being a passenger. Lots of love xxxxx