Once a year I usually take off, leaving my troubles behind and head somewhere new for a few days. I try to time it around the holidays since it's usually a busy time and well...let's face - that much family time can sometimes drive a person crazy. This year I delayed my trip because Ozzie and Jenn decided get married in January in Mexico, forcing all of us to take time off work, drink all we can drink, eat all we can eat, and above all else - have an absolutely fab time. The nerve!
So instead, I decided to take my trip in June. I left on a jet plane to Boston, a city I've never been to before and I was looking forward to seeing the historical city full of cute boys with Boston accents, amazing clam chowder, Harvard and above all else, the Green Monster. Although I'm not a big baseball fan, going to a ballgame is an entirely different experience. Tan decided to accompany me on my Bostonian adventure, and while he's a Blue Jays fan at heart, he was willing to put hometown pride aside and cheer on the Red Sox at one of the oldest and most famous ball parks in all of Baseball history.
We stumbled upon Cheers where we stopped to have a beer and we even spent a morning at the Aquarium, which was a lesson in patience as we made our way through the scads of tweeners running amok through the Aquarium, screaming, yelling and randomly singing songs at the top of their lungs. Not to mention losing Tan a few times. He later informed me those plaques beside the fish tanks that I couldn't be bothered with, were apparently meant to be read and contained valuable information about the sea life you're looking at. Again, moving on...
We did the Fenway tour as it was recommended to Tan by a friend of his, during which we got to sit on top of the Green Monster and in the most expensive seats in the ball park. Seats in this section will cost you $315K because you have to purchase 2 season tickets for 7 years. Later that night we took in a Red Sox vs Yankees game which puts all other baseball games I've been to to shame. It was standing room only, the cheers would've fooled anyone into thinking the Red Sox won the game when it was really only the first pitch in the first inning and if you were a Yankees fan in the stands, of which there were a surprising few - look out! "Yankees Suck" was a common cheer throughout the game. A surprising treat at the game, aside from the Fenway Frank and introducing Tan to Kettle Corn Popcorn (seriously - who hasn't had Kettle Corn Popcorn before?!), was that "Sweet Caroline" by Neil Diamond is played at the bottom on the 8th inning at every single home game. Seeing a sold out stadium of 37,000+ fans sing the chorus at the top of their lungs is a sight not easily erased from memory. Nor is the memory of a Red Sox and Yankees fan getting into a fight which resulted in the girlfriend of the Red Sox fan throwing a beer at the Yankees fan and subsequently being thrown out. A little excessive in my humble opinion, I mean really...that's alcohol abuse.
Next stop...Toronto.
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