Take Me Out To The Ball Game

On a steaming Sunday afternoon, Mark and I went to Comerica Park in Detroit to watch the Tigers vs the Boston Red Sox. Fortunately, we had the OSRAM tickets so we were in prime seats under cover - or we would have ROASTED.

Although the stadium was filled - it wasn't all Tigers fans - in fact - we sat in an area that was mostly Red Sox fans. The man in front of us was very "passionate" about the game and sported a Boston hat. The game was great - with the Tigers leading up to the 7th inning then the Red Sox hitting two home runs to bring the game score to 6-5 (Tigers) - which turned out to be the final score.

The best part for me? My hot dog, peanuts and four bottles of water - new stadium so the public restrooms were not too bad :)

GeoCaching at Kensington Park

Today we (Jill, Mark and I) went on our first geocaching. Geocaching is hiking to a location that someone has stored a cache (usually a waterproof container with little prizes and a log book) at a set location. The location is then loaded on to the site www.geocaching.com with the coordinates a story and a few hints. With a hand-held GPS the hikers (in this case us) find the cache.

We set out to find two geocaches, loaded our coordinates and with our new GPS (and the instruction book) started our adventure. On a beautiful day - the hike alone was nice - but knowing that you are going to find a treasure at the end - well - that sounded like fun.

Our first geocache started with the three of us just trying to stay on course - but after a while we got the hang of it. Unfortunately, we couldn't find the cache -- even after 1/2 hour of searching. We were disappointed and we gave up the hunt and went to the next set of coordinates and hurrah - we found it.

We logged our entry that we found the cache, left a little prize and took one (this is the normal procedure - we weren't stealing....).

We may be hooked on a new hobby. Next time I will bring a camera to capture the event.