Baseball road trip to Arizona
Made a road trip to Arizona starting on Friday with the gang to see the Cardinals play the Diamondbacks. The drive was about six hours each way but it seemed short, probably because we were joking around in the car on the way and I didn’t have to do the driving. We stayed overnight in a $50 hotel five miles from the stadium and it was a really nice hotel for the money. Saturday we went to Bank One Ballpark and took in Cardinal batting practice. I didn’t catch any homers but one came pretty close to me — the row in front of me, but a guy was in the perfect position to catch the ball and it came right to him. Maybe next time. Too bad too, since Pujols was the guy that hit the ball. He’s probably going to win the batting title this year.
Saturday afternoon we drove back down the 10 to Westwood. We probably won’t be able to do such a trip again this year since we’ll be bogged down with homework but it was nice to take advantage of UCLA’s Week 0, which takes it easy on the students by not assigning much homework.