Sunday

This is a view of Petco Stadium, home of the San Diego Padres baseball team, from the window of the Omni Hotel in downtown San Diego. The hotel is connected to the ballpark by a pedestrian bridge to the second level. It is kind of a cool deal because it is restricted to hotel guests or anyone who bought Padre ticket through the hotel. The walk across the bridge right into the park saved us from having to walk all the way around the stadium to the main entrance.




We sat in the third level behind home plate. It was a serious hike to get to our seats, but they were in the shade, so that was good. The temperature is in the high eighties in Sn Diego this weekend, which is pretty high for here.

Less fortunate seating-wise than us, were a group of about 400 Marine Corps recruits, from the Marine Corps Depot, San Diego, who endured the game in the full sun, dressed in their olive green fatigues. It must have been very uncomfortable for them. About the seventh inning, they left the stadium and double-timed it to their buses for the trip back to the base.




This character managed to get to the sixth inning before demanding that he be taken back to the hotel. His mom and grandmother were happy to comply. Right after they left a guy trying to get to his seat in the row behind us fell and landed on me. That was sort of startling and it was good that Sneedlet and the lovely Mrs. Sneed weren't sitting in their seats when he fell.


Things in this blog represented to be fact, may or may not actually be true. The writer is frequently wrong, sometimes just full of it, but always judgmental and cranky