We made it to the hotel and had to unload the whole car as it we were dropping it off the next morning, and straight away we were on the next train to Yankee Stadium. Yankee Stadium is the newest and most expensive ball park in the MLB so of course it was pretty damn good, and it was pretty damn hard to get seats! The seats we had were in the bleachers but by the 3rd innings Bailey and I were in the comfiest seats we have sat in at a ball park. Bluey and Genna knew they would have trouble getting past security so they were happy to stay up there, and were within talking distance anyway. While the players were warming up in the 5th, Yankees star Andruw Jones through a ball into the crowd, straight into my hands, the only person in the crowd to actually catch the ball that night!
No expense spared at Yankee Stadium - there was about 4 giant screens
The crowd start to filter in
The big man - CC Sabathia on the mound for the Yankees
A meeting on the mound as they change pitchers
Bluey and Genna came and sat with us in the 7th and about 20 minutes later there was a ball flying at us, a long home run hit by the Yankees star, Alex Rodriguez. All of a sudden I saw Bluey scrambling to get it. The ball hit a sign behind and hit the ground, Bluey and a mob of 5 other guys jumped on it, just as he just about had it an asian man snatched it out of his grasp, the whole family was shattered! Two balls in one night would've been awesome, but the night was still good with the Yankees losing to the Rays 5-2. In case I hadn't mentioned, we barrack for 2 baseball teams in our family - the Dodgers and whoever is playing the Yankees!
We got off the Subway at Times Square, and what a place at night! There is a set of steps in the middle of it that gives you an aerial view of the billboards, flashing lights, stores, people, cars, you could sit there for hours and just watch it!
Approaching Times Square
This sort of crowd is here around the clock in the City that never sleeps
It was past 12 by the time we got home, but Genna and Bailey were happy as they didn't have anything planned for tomorrow, for Bluey and I though, it was another story.
This morning we had to navigate our way to Brooklyn, drop Bailey and Genna off at the Sheraton Hotel with the luggage, and we then kept on going to Middletown, NJ - a 45 mile drive through traffic that we had to do in 40 minutes. We ended up being 25 minutes late. So, after 15 weeks of driving, we had to say goodbye to our Dodge. It took us around North America for 11436 Miles (18400 km's) with hardly a whimper - I reckon Bluey is going to miss it? It took about an hour to get everything sorted out with the car before we were on a train back to Penn Station, NY. An hour and a half later we were going back out to Brooklyn and our hotel.
We met back up with Genna and Bailey and found they had made themselves quite comfortable. We made plans with Rob (Genna's friend from the tennis last Monday) to have dinner with him and his youngest daughter in the most famous Pizza restaurant in New York City - Grimaldi's. When we got there we found there was a line was at least 100 people long - and apparently this happens all day, every day! Although I hate line-ups the pizza we ate there was worth every bit of it, best pizza in my life!
To finish off our night we went for a walk around Brooklyn Heights with Rob and saw some stunning views of the Manhatten skyline and the Statue of Liberty at sunset and the Manhatten and Brooklyn Bridges. By nightfall we were all eating ice-creams before we said our good-byes and walked home.
This is the view that Rob & Bridgitt have from Brooklyn Heights
.....and this view of Manhattan - I could get used to that!
We are planning to catch up with Rob, Bridgitt and their 2 daughters tomorrow and do something that has not been planned yet as it is Genna's birthday.
~Riley.
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