Today we will be celebrating Father's Day, as Natalie, Elijah and I have a surprise gift for Mike, for Father's Day and his upcoming special Birthday two days later.
Our Local Radio Station had put on a bus trip to Toronto to see the Toronto Blue Jays play against The Baltimore Orioles in Toronto for Father's Day. We were lucky enough to get the last four tickets.
Better still Mike knew nothing about this until he opened the gift. He really was surprised, thrilled and even speechless! Now that is a first, right!
Mike was convinced we would be going in the Big Yellow School bus.
Oh yes, I even managed to pull his Blue Jays Hat out of hiding.
It was a fun evening, filled with all kinds of plans for the next day.
Sunday 21st June 2015.
Very warm, damp, humid morning, and right on time Natalie and Elijah picked us up for the drive to Owen Sound, 7.45 a.m.
Whenever Elijah and I go anywhere there is always an "adventure" of some sort. Today was no different. A few miles along highway 6 Elijah squealed at Natalie -"Spider" ! He does not like spiders. Then Natalie saw the spider on her arm and was trying to knock it off. Elijah thought it was going to land on him and all "Heck" broke out. I was the brave one, and picked it up and moved it. Mike said he had killed it. 5 minutes later Elijah saw it crawling up the back of Natalie's seat again. Once again I had to retrieve the spider (the spider that was a little larger than a money spider, that is), this time I "dispatched" the spider. You would not believe all the laughing and stories that came out of that "adventure". So on we go to Owen Sound.
All settled in our seats and heading out of Owen Sound by 9.05 a.m..
The guys from the radio station were great. We all had tons of fun on the bus.
We were given raffle tickets, but we didn't win anything.
They had also put together a whole load of Blue Jays Trivia and every 30 minutes or so they would ask three questions from the trivia. Guess what? We didn't win that either.
The drive was good, and Harry (our driver) was excellent.
There were quite a few closed roads around the area of The Rogers Centre, so we were held up in traffic for quite a while.
Still arrived with plenty of time to get our seats and get accustomed to where we were.
It's been a while since we were last in Toronto, some things very different, some things much the same.
Stopped to take a picture of the diamond getting ready for the game.
This is a picture taken from the 5th level, the level we will be sitting in.
Also you can see where we will be getting our bus back home.
Just a reminder as to why we are here enjoying ourselves today.
Here are our boys getting ready for the big game.
CN Tower from our seats.
Although up in the 5th level, we could see the diamond perfectly well. We did have binoculars with us, but didn't need to use them.
Our seats were right behind home plate but many feet up!
Yes, we would go right there again, it was great.
Baltimore got 7 home runs.
Bautista did good and after a 48 minute innings the score was:
Baltimore 7
Toronto 9
Not too bad at all.
Martin was great too.
Reyes was as good as he always is.
The crowd went wild when Kawasaki was up to pinch run.
Now the one problem we did have was the fact that we actually lost the game.
Baltimore 13
Toronto 9.
Oh well it was a great day, and a real good game.
I could not leave without taking this picture.
Back in the day George Bell was my favorite player. Last year he was inducted to the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame in St. Mary's Ontario. Unfortunately I was away at the time, or I would have been there, with "bells" on.
And so, we are now on our way back to Owen Sound with out a win under our belt. But there were a lot of very Happy Father's on the bus, regardless of the score.
Back in Owen Sound our Country 93.7 car was still parked in the lot awaiting it's next calling.
It would be good if we could do this again very soon.
Yes, Mike enjoyed his gift, and truthfully, we all did!
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