Regular readers may be dismayed to know that I was unable to collect the $5,000 mentioned in my previous post. Guess I'll have to keep working.
The trip to Red Rocks was ridiculously fun. If you've never seen a show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO, do yourself a favor and go see your favorite band there. Or your second-favorite band. Basically, anyone except John Tesh, which is unfortunately how most people know Red Rocks, from some special concert he gave there. I'm of the opinion that nobody should be familiar with anything solely because of John Tesh. We've finally managed to rid the rest of the world of Celine Dion and confine her to the greater Las Vegas area - sort of like a nuclear containment unit, I suppose. Ok, so that was random.
So I'm taking a temporary respite from the road-tripping lifestyle this week and enjoying some time at home. Taking in local shows (caught the Jeff Coffin Mu'Tet last night at Johnny D's in Somerville...fantastic show), eating some local food (i.e. stuff we make ourselves instead of eating on the road - had a nice barbecue for my wife's new bowling league the other night, where I apparently mastered the art of "not burning stuff") and enjoying the local nine - we've got Red Sox tickets for Saturday's game and I'm looking forward to it. We missed our game in June (thanks to the generosity of my friend Chris' family, Viv and I have made a habit of buying a pair of tickets for each month of the baseball season out of their season ticket package) so it'll be good to go back.
While we were up at my parents' place last weekend we laid the foundation for another series of baseball stadium visits. Now that we kids are out of school (and all gainfully and permanently employed, no less! Congrats to my brother Matt for landing a full-time job!) my parents have resumed their traveling ways. Earlier this summer they took a circuitous route to see ballgames in Toronto, Montreal, Detroit, Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Cincinnati. The plan of attack for next year is Milwaukee, Minneapolis, both Chicago ballparks, Kansas City and St. Louis. Viv and I are going to have some catching up to do - between the two of us we've been to Fenway, Camden Yards, Safeco, and...um...is that it? Yikes. We've been to a few minor-league parks (Hadlock Field in Portland and the one in Trenton whose name escapes me) as well as three spring training facilities (two in Arizona and of course the Red Sox one in Fort Myers, FL). We were planning on going to Coors Field in Denver while we were out at Red Rocks, but a sprained ankle put the kibosh on that plan. Turned out to be a good thing because they had an escalator accident/incident that sent a few dozen fans to the hospital. So one sprained ankle probably spared us from another. Odd...
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