Nationals Ballpark :: Nationals vs. Rays, 6/20/12

Can we just say, wow?! Nationals Ballpark is an absolute treasure…shall we say, a “National Treasure?” Uhthankyou. On Wednesday, as a part of a marathon day as chronicled in an earlier post (sidenote, don’t believe half of the things Gregg writes), we had the opportunity to tour this park before deciding to purchase last-minute tickets to Wednesday night’s game. You’ll recall that we had opted to start the games on Thursday night, but with Stephen Strasburg on the mound on Wednesday night, and with sweet seats available on StubHub for $10, we couldn’t resist. And we are pumped to now be catching two games at this wonderful ballpark.

We’ve Got…Two Tickets to Paradise!

Now that you have that Eddie Money song stuck in your head, it’s time for us to talk about the most exciting part of our trip…the GAMES! We’ve blogged briefly about schedules, budgets, plane flights, train tickets, and so on (and we’ll have one more post about our accommodations before we leave), but the most important purchases are the game tickets. You can see in this sweet picture that we have two tickets to each game of our Northeast Swing! Not pictured are the three tickets that my good friend, Todd, has already thrown down for in Boston at Fenway…what a guy!! Instead of playing the scalping game, we opted to pre-purchase all our tickets ahead of time on StubHub, using our trusty Ultimate Baseball Road Trip book as a guide.