Let's go Red Sox, let's go....4th July baseball game

If you haven't been to Boston you should go - it's a great city - very pretty, relaxed, historical and so easy to get around. We left lovely Maine in the fog early morning on the 4th July and headed to the south of Boston for our final night in the RV. Ditched the RV at the biggest campground I think we have ever seen and headed straight for the Red Sox baseball game at Fenway Park. Awesome seats behind home plate (great birthday present from Rich and Gee). All of the streets around the park are closed down and they set up the ticket stalls on the actual streets - with souvenir booths, food places, bands etc - fun atmosphere and stinking hot....

Headed inside for a beer in the cool stand and then watched the game - quite a cool start as they celebrated independence day and then got into the game - surprisingly it was quite fun with music in between and people getting into the spirit of things and being an animated crowd (that doesn't happen a lot as they are very polite). They don't replay bad calls and we were part of the cleanest mexican wave I have ever seen - not one plastic cup thrown once - pah.....unfortunately the Red Sox lost to the Toronto Blue Jays (not cool when you start cheering for the wrong team so I found out).....had a bite to eat and then headed back to the RV to clean it out and sort out for the big drop off the next day. This meant missing the big fireworks for 4th July but we were a way out of town and with a million other people we thought maybe not....sadly.

The streets around Fenway Park

Boston Red Sox

Cool atmosphere before the match

Good beer

Fenway - cool old ground

Independence day - Stars and Stripes - a huge flag dropped down over the scoreboard

cool old sign

Fenway

the pitch

Tis the star-spangled banner: O, long may it wave
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave!

National anthem singing

The park is full for every game

Go the hot dog sellers - check out the ball net behind the home plate

If a ball goes into the crowd they keep it, they often hit them in too