I'm a planner, and some would consider having a week to plan a ball game is more than enough time. But not for me. Still, I ruled my second goal for the summer: go to a ball game.
How did I rule it you ask. Well, starting off with two Pepsi cans for $4 off Value Deck (i.e upper deck but behind home plate) seats, tickets for two were $16.00. But wait! $6 per ticket are loaded on to it for food or merchandise. I though "almost a small soda! Cool!" (To be fair, we brought Togo's sandwiches and two bottles of water and two bottles of soda.) Actually it amounted to nachos, a bottle of water and a regular soda, but I had to kick in an extra $.75. Ordinarily, I'd go nuts on food and drink from the water fountain (which I did) but it was the 7th inning and you can't take the money with you and I didn't want a pulled pork sandwich (which according to my receipt, I got). So in the freaking hot we enjoyed a cool beverage.
The value of all of that was cancelled out by paying $17 for the priveledge of parking six isles from the box office. Tickets and food less than the parking. Sounds about right. It turned out to be a good thing since we came in with a hard plastic cooler and that's not allowed. (Because it's a weapon? People come in with umbrellas just waiting to take eyes out. Come on!) So a quick run back to the car and then we were ready to go. (I should have mentioned we were sporting our hats that we got from the game we went to last year. I love swag.)
Speaking of swag, it was beach towel day. Yes, these are thead bare, crappy, must wast separate from anything or risk the ink bleeding over your real clothes...but free!!!!! (I did some mild freaking out that they'd run out. It got bad when they sent us back because of the cooler. But all was well when we made it through the gate. And around the fifth inning, people were coming in and they got them too. (Grrr.)
There was also a guy taking pictures that we could see online. According to him they were free, but I guess it was free for them to take our likeness and use it how they want but we have to pay to get a print. Or $50 to download the image. Meh, I didn't look as cute as I thought so it's okay. I got my beach towel and tan so I'm good.
If you have to get technical on the price of gas, sunscreen(I had a coupon), food before the game, ect. of course it was more. But I look at the price of the game itself. It was a great day. And the bonus was I saw a Florida plate on the way there. Whooo! Could this get sweeter?
