We decided to venture north a little for the day and explore the outskirts of LA. The day was perfect – 90 degrees, low humidity and not a cloud in the sky. We decided to start the day off at the beach, after all not much can go wrong after a day in the sun. We craved a little excitement so Venice Beach it was.
It’s the middle of the week, but the beach was still very much alive. We saw young Tony Hawks at Venice Skate Park, Arnold Swartzinagers lifting weights at Muscle Beach and something.
We also ventured into a new money making scheme. An artist does something absurd, funny, or crazy and if you want to take a picture you need to pay a dollar. Why not – these days everybody is posting photos! (Hmmm… side job?) Jason got sucked in and had to take a picture of this guy holding two live cobra snakes in his hand.
For the evening we scored ourselves $9 Dodger tickets – try finding that in Boston! The San Diego Padres where in town and we figured what better way to experience the city than go to a game at Dodger Stadium.
Unlike Boston’s Fenway Park, which is located in the city, Dodger Stadium is located on a massive hill top surrounded by a vast parking lot. The food and drinks are about the same price but double the size. The beer comes in 24 oz tall boys and the hot dogs are genuine foot longs.
Our seats turned out to be great seats. 6th row in left field right next to the dugout. Jeremy was ready at any moment to catch a fly ball, but unfortunately no home run balls were hit our way. We both were decked out in our Red Sox gear and surprisingly got a bunch of high fives going through the stadium.
We noticed the fans sitting around us were true Dodger fans that go to every game. It’s more of a casual event with in-between inning antics, but the fans get really into it. One guy was even wearing a jersey with the name “Left Field”… sitting in Left Field. Ha. Ha!
