Tuesday night we went to the Cardinals Vs Astros baseball game in downtown Houston. The drive to get into downtown actually wasn't too bad, until we were in the middle of the city, and most of that traffic was because of an accident and police cars trying to get to it. We found parking that was really close to the field and free...I'll get to that part later.
Dan and I sat in section 111 on row 5, that's right we were 5 rows up from the field! We sat on the Cardinals' side, so it was really cool to watch the players in the dugout and walk on and off the field. We were in foul territory, but sadly and to my relief, no balls were hit at us. We learned that if you want to take home a ball as a souvenir, you must sit right above the dugout and have a child who is willing to stand above the dugout and yell for the ball. They only give the balls to children...Sadly this man sitting in front of us never caught on to this, and we watched him try to get a ball for about 4 innings. It was kind of sad, he would shout and wave his arms around every time they were going to throw the ball into the audience, but the players just looked at him and then threw it up to the same group of kids. The stadium is an indoor stadium, so we didn't have to fight with the Houston heat while we were there! It was very pleasant! Also, the snow cones there are bigger and cheaper than the ones at Bees games!
I felt safe wearing Cardinals colors, because at least half of the fans there were Cardinals fans, by the end of the game we were sitting in a sea of red, all the Astros fans were headed home. The final score was 4 to 0 for the Red Birds.
So about the free parking...the game got over around 9:30 and we walked back to the parking garage. My heart sunk when I saw the exit gated up. I thought that the garage had closed and we would have to get a hotel for the night. Luckily, we found an open entrance to get in and and open exit to get out. The exit gate arm wasn't down and there was no one in the booth to stop us, so we just drove out. So free parking! Unless they took a picture of our license plate, we lucked out on having to pay for parking!
It was great to get out and go into the city and enjoy the evening. Next week we are going to an all day music fest/concert and we hope to go to the zoo the following week. We have to go before the dinosaurs leave!
