| Rather than just check in at the hotel
and rest for the evening, I decided to take in a ball game. The
Royals were home and I had never been to an American League
baseball game before, so why not? I didn't make it to my seat
until the middle of the second inning. Traffic was rough getting
into the parking lot and then I had to buy a ticket. |
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| The famous fountains and waterfalls in
the outfield at Kauffman Stadium. |
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| It's a pretty nice park. It opened in
1973 but went through a renovation in 2009. |
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| Like so many ballparks these days there
are statues of team greats. This one is also a Florida State
University great, Dick Howser. |
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| When in Kansas City, what else can you
eat but barbeque? I had a nice brisket sandwich at Sweet Baby
Ray's at the stadium. |
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| I had just gotten a new camera a few
weeks before the trip so this is my first experience with it. This
one has a much better zoom than my old one as is evidenced by this
photo. |
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| The ballpark has had a giant scoreboard
shaped like the Royals logo since it opened, though it is a lot
nicer now. |
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| There's a little Royals museum there as
well. It's free so you don't have to tell me twice. |
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| The Kansas City Royals celebrated their
first American League pennant in 1980. They lost the World Series
that year to the Philadelphia Phillies (heh). |
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| But they beat the St. Louis Cardinals
five years later. |
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| The fountains up close and personal. |
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| Kauffman Stadium and Arrowhead Stadium
share a stadium complex. I took this picture to see how the new
camera handles dim light. My sister has a Sony camera that she
took on our trip to the U.K. and her night pictures came out great
without flash. So when I got a new camera I also got a Sony. I
took the photo at around 9:00 and it really is not this bright
out. |
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