St. Pete

Had a great time in St. Pete. We drove up from Marathon on Thursday afternoon. It took about 6 hours and we made it in time for the first of four Red Sox games that we saw at Tropicana stadium over the weekend. The Sox lost the series (they won Saturday night, lost on Thursday, Friday, and Sunday) but we had a great time.  Tropicana stadium is a really nice ballpark -- and Mary Alice lives literally 7 minutes away (with traffic!), which was a bonus. 

Naturally Mary Alice is a Rays fan. As are her friends. There is a friendly rivalry going on. Bill had noticed that each time he went for a cigarette, one of the Rays would score a home run. Mary Alice passed this story along to a friend and neighbor Mr. Bell -- who is a Rays fan. The next night as we were leaving Mary Alice's house for the game, there was a package for Bill at the gate. It was a pack of cigarettes and a note from Mr. Bell saying "...Please accept these cigarettes and feel free to go out OFTEN tonight so we can continue our scoring...." TOO FUNNY. Bill, Mary Alice and I got a good chuckle. 

 

So our weekend was FULL of baseball, eating, a few games of Skip-Bo. Bill and I walked around downtown St. Pete on Saturday and saw lots of old buggies at a Volkswagen convention -- there is always something going on in St. Pete!!!

After three of the four games, we went to the Vinoy (the hotel next door to Bill's mom's house and where the Red Sox were staying) to see if we could catch the team returning to the hotel. I guess they went in the back way since we never saw them. There were a ton of Red Sox fans in St. Pete though. 

The other really cool thing is that Mary Alice gave us memberships to the Museum of Fine Arts in downtown St. Pete, which we will certainly make good use of this summer. We'll be in the Sarasota/St. Pete area in about a month for at least a few months.