Day 199 - July 18

We had great seats at the Padres game today!  Right down the 1st base line on the HR side.  A kid a few rows in front of us caught a HR in the first inning.  Lucky kid. :)  These were the "All you can eat" seats which were TONS cheaper than those seats in Baltimore.  There are fewer food options, but really, it's a baseball game.  The food and drinks are just a bonus.  The people in front of us did not agree.  They were complaining loudly about the food and lack of alcohol.  I don't know why they were so confused - the All You Can Eat menu was clearly explained to us both in signage and verbally by the ticket guy.  But both the mom and the dad were mad that there were onions in the tray with the hot dogs.  I don't like onions on my hot dog either, but I just grabbed one that wasn't slathered in them.  When their kid tried to explain that concept to them, they told the kid he was an idiot (and used much more colorful language than that as well.)  They didn't like that the only drink options were coke, diet, sprite, and water either.  They spent a lot of money on beer and then complained about that.  THey also bought their kid every junk food that walked by that wasn't included (which he ate 3 bites of and then threw on the ground.  I wanted that churro, snow cone, and cotton candy if he didn't!!) :) 

It did not surprise me in the 5th inning when the kid said he had a headache and they went home. 

But other than the crazies, the game was great.  They did a lot more to get people involved - more like the minor league parks do with games and contests.  Everyone in the whole park won 2 free tacos from a local fast food place because one person was able to play the "which hat is the ball under" game.  Not too shabby!

After the game, we meandered around the gaslight district.  We headed to a seafood place for dinner, where Mike started drooling at the thought of a big Tuna steak.  He was sad when dinner arrived and it was more like pan fried fish.  At first, he just assumed he read the description incorrectly and so he ate the dinner and just wasn't thrilled with it.  However, when the bill came, the price was not what he was anticipating either.  It was much, much cheaper.  So he figures the waitress put it in completely wrong, but at that point we had already eaten and it was too late.  At least we didn't pay big bucks for dinner he didn't like!

We rode their Trolley (lite-rail) into and out of the city which was easy to do, but we didn't realize how small the city was.  By the time we had meandered to dinner, we had cut out about half of our trolley ride back to the car.   Seeing all the ComicCon posters up around the city is making me wish we could stay! :)