Baseball Extravaganza

As we mentioned several months ago, Matt and I are planning to take a baseball lover’s trip of a lifetime this summer.  We have finally started making travel arrangements for our trip and we are so excited.  We just wish it wasn’t still so far away!  We’ve booked our plane tickets to get us to our first city and baseball stadium and then home from our last stop on the trip.  We are both trying REALLY, REALLY hard to pack in carry-on sized suitcases so we don’t have to deal with checking bags.  It’s just so annoying and frustrating and even worse now that you have to pay to checked luggage.  Matt will totally be able to pack and carry his suitcase on the plane…me on the other hand….that remains to be seen.  A week is a long time and will require lots of clothes .

We’ve also booked our train tickets.  We will be taking the Amtrak train between Baltimore, Philly, New York and Boston.  We are both really excited about this.  I’ve never been on a train before, so I’m looking forward to it.  This is the other reason we are both trying to pack in carry-on sized luggage…you can’t check luggage on the trains we are taking and it would be a huge pain to deal with a big gigantic suitcase on a train and in a train station.

Last night we were able to book the first of our game tickets.  The Baltimore Orioles already have their tickets on sale, so we found so pretty good seats at Camden Yards and bought our tickets for the game.  We looked at tickets for our other games on StubHub…but because they are because sold by season ticket holders, they cost more than if were to buy them from the teams we are going to wait until the other teams put their tickets on sale before we buy them.  If we need to buy them through StubHub to get good seats, we will.

We’ve got hotels for each city picked out, but will book those in the next several weeks.  We are also deciding on other things to do in each of the cities we will be visiting other than the baseball games.  We will be in New York for almost 4 days and since Matt’s never been there…we have lot’s to do!  We also plan on trying one of Bobby Flay’s restaurants while we are in New York.

We are getting so excited about our trip…I wish it was closer to June than it is.