Mormon Dodger Night-

We spent Friday night at the Dodger game, along with Mormons from all over the Southland.  'Twas an enjoyable evening of Dodger Dogs, Nachos and more conversation with our friends than actually watching the game (though can you blame us? the Dodgers stink right now).



Our chauffers for the night, the Phillip's.  Our night started off great, no traffic (we are only 5 minutes from the stadium anways), and as we were pulling up to the parking booth the car next to us offered us a preffered parking pass... for FREE!!! Yes, please and thank you (the less money we can give McCourt the better, I already paid way more than I had to for the tickets). The little guy had on a sweet Ethier onesie, sandly he blew right out of it, see next..



Cassy asked to hold Jordan, and as soon as he sat on her lap he proceeding to relive himself of his previous meal (or two).  Unfortunatley for Cassy the diaper was no match for "the explosion of the night" and, well, you can kinda see the ramifications (post clean-up).  She was a very good sport about the incident, and we all had a good laugh.  



Yes, we were WAAAAYYY up there, row JJ is exactly the top row of the reserve section. We figured that we were above to top of the foul poles, but the railing behind the seats provided a nice head rest and we could stand up without concern for anyone's view being obstructed.



From our penthouse seats we had a great view of the parking lots, which were basically empty. This picture shows only one big lot that wasn't even ever opened for people to park in (there were others, also).  Obviously this shows that people just aren't going to the games.  No one wants to go and support Frank McCourt, and for good reason (dude is more than dumb, and I'll leave it at that).  I'm in the 'no support' club, which is why we haven't been to more games.  If I could be guaranteed a free preffered parking pass every time I went I'd be more willing to buy the $1 ticket on Stub Hub (seriously though, we can get tickets for $1, McCourt you're a disgrace). 



World Cup Notes...

So, around the 80th minute of the match, while Blair was painting her toenails we had this conversation:Blair: "I want a shootout"
Me: "So, you want Japan to score?"
Blair: "No, I want a shootout"
Me: "Well, we are winning, so Japan has to score before we can have a shootout"
Blair: "OH NO! Nevermind, I don't want them to score, I want us to just win, I forgot we were ahead"

It was the next minute (the 81st) when Japan scored their first goal, so Blair jinxed the first goal, you can blame her. 

Then, in the second OT, after Hope crashed into her own player and Japan was setting up for the corner kick, I said: "They better not score on this corner, because Solo is hurt now and we'll lose if this goes to PK's" Probably 10 seconds later Japan scored and Blair exclaimed "You jinxed it!! I'll take the blame for the first one but the second one was all your fault!"

As we went on to see Solo's injury wasn't much of a factor in PK's, since we couldn't put the ball in  a decent spot on goal (kinda the story of the whole game). I'm calling it a choke job. 

Another thing, Ian Darke seems like a knowledgable announcer but maybe he should recognize he's not announcing the game to a bunch of Brits.  Lose some of the British slang phrases, and adopt a couple American phrases, Thanks.

And one more, Paraguay was playing Brazil in the Men's Copa America (currently in PK's and Brazil is choking) at the same time as the Women's World Cup Final (I was flipping back and forth between the 2).  I wonder what would have happened had Brazil's Womens Team made the WC final.  What game would the country watch, or would they alter the times of the games, (I imagine they were kind of pre set), I can't imagine they would want both teams playing at the same time.  It didn't happen, so it doesn't really matter, just thinking out loud. And
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GANA PARAGUUUUUUAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!! Brazil makes exactly 0 PK's and Paraguay advances in the Copa America... and my mood has done a 180 (I am officially over the women's loss). Aguanta Paraguay!!!!!!

Carmageddon... Yes please!

So, the 405 (or a 10 mile stretch of the 405) has shut down for the weekend.  We've been hearing about this for at least a month now, on the news, at shool/work, and on signs flashing on every freeway up and down the west coast (reportedly people in Oregon were told not to travel south this weekend).  For us, this wasn't really much of a concern since we don't really go to west LA very often (even less to 'the valley'), so the advice to stay inside or 'stay in your neck of the woods' wasn't going to be an issue for us.  But of course, Blair's doctor's appointment gets scheduled for ... July 16, the 1st day of Carmageddon, and I have an Ayuda dental clinic in Tustin, so I can't go with her.  Needless to say, she was excited to attack Carmageddon on her own, "NOT'.  She had to be at the Dr. office between 8 and 10 AM, so she had planned on leaving around 7:30, so I sent her a text at around 9:30, and her response was "The best I have ever seen:) it needs to be Carmageddon all the time!"  So it is safe to say the general public stayed home and off the roads, and Blair had a very easy trip to West LA. 

Espana pequena

We had our first taste of Spanish food yesterday. We enjoyed the Patatas Bravas, but the Paella not so much, but it was a fun experience. We all got a free flan and Daisy showed us how we are suppose to eat it, although this flan wasn't quite as inhalable as we'd hoped...

(and the video doesn't seem to want to work, lucky you Daisy)

It was way better than my attempt!!
Now I have finally updated the blog.