April 21 2008 The Red Sox Game

Today we got up had breakfast and left Tedann's house about 9:30. We walked to the Subway station so we could get to the Red Sox game. Today just for your info is Patriots day in Massachusetts. They are also running the Boston Marathon today. So on the subway there were lots of people going to cheer on there family members on the route. Also just to let you know to run the marathon and to get a number you must have ran a marathon before and have a good enough time to even get a number. Now just to let you know there was15,000 or so numbers given out.People from all over the world come and run. The mens runner that won was from Ethopia and he ran the whole 26 miles in 2 hours and 7 or so minutes! Amazing the women runner was from Kenya and she ran it in 2 hours and 25 or so minutes. Lance Armstrong also ran the marathon his number was 100 and he ran it in 2 hours and 52 minutes. He said the marathon was harder than the Tour de France!! On the subway we met people from Quebec and a doctor from Hungary that had run the race it was a lot of fun. I have taken up running this year with my friends in my ward and it has been really fun. The Saturday before we left for Boston I ran 5 1/2 miles in 1 hour and 10 minutes. Amazing considering that is the farthest I have ever ran without stopping !!!! Now on to the baseball game we made it there on the subway about 10:15 and we entered Fenway Park. We had great seats.About 15 rows up from first base. It was very intresting to me to watch the people. The food was kind of expensive so we did not get anything there a drink was 4.75 and a bag of peanuts and popcorn was that as well. Beer was the most popular I think we would watch people go up and downthe stairs with 2 cups in their hands and then after they were done with those 2 off they were again for more. The game was really good we saw the missionaries on the jumbotron and we saw many balls hit people. In front of us a few row a ball was thrown by the bat boy into the stands intended for a young boy and a man stood up and the ball hit him in the head bad. He had to have medical attention and it was not pretty.The Red Sox won the game against the Texas Rangers 8 to 3. Thanks Tedann for the tickets it was a very fun day. After the game getting back to Tedanns was very slow we ended up being on the subway for 40 or so minutes because of the influx of people using the subway because the game had just let out and a lot of the marathoners were ending there run as well. For dinner I made chicken and homemade onion rings for tedann and mark. Tedann had not had real onionrings since she found out she had celiac like mark.