Last night Erich and I headed back down to the Denver city center to take in the Colorado Rockies play the SF Giants. I’ll cut to the chase right away. The teams had played earlier in the day in and the Rockies had lost 19-2. In the game we watched, they fared better, but still came up short 2-1.
The drive to Denver from Evergreen was pleasant as it was a Monday and folks were mostly headed in the other direction. We had a quick yogurt at the Whole Foods, which, had I known it was there, I’d have bought a few things for my room over the weekend. But, no matter.
Then we ate at a pretty good burger place before heading to the game.
I love a major league ballpark. I think I actually like just being at the ballpark more than I really care about the game. Given that there’s no pro ball in Hawaii, it’s hard to really care about teams across the ocean. But I love the atmosphere.
A storm was moving in, which seems pretty typical for a summer night in Denver, so the game was delayed by twenty minutes.
And yes, we did get a few drops of rain, but nothing that made us leave our seats.
We had a great time watching the game, though I’m going to admit we left at the seventh inning stretch because we still had to drive back to Evergreen and get up early this morning for our drive to South Dakota. All good.
While waiting for the light rail to get back to Erich’s car, I managed to grab one final shot of Union Station. I’ll be back.
And then were were off.
All in all, it was a great evening. After the rain passed the weather was perfect, cool (shorts appropriate cool), clear, and lovely.
I’m going to miss Denver, but I have several standing invitations to come back (thanks Erich and Lori), and undoubtedly I will. Soon.
And now it’s time to leave for South Dakota. More on that later.
Slower, cheaper, less useful…