Let my spirit carry me

Amazing what can happen, how life can lead you in very unexpected directions, when you let it. I left work today and decided to try to leave the post by a different gate. Well I made a wrong turn and wound up not where I wanted to be at all. I got pretty frustrated 'cuz I just wanted to get back to the hotel and chill. After driving around awhile I ended up near a Metro station and decided, what the heck, I'll go into DC and walk around the Mall a little. It'll help me clear my mind some, ease my frustration. I get on Metro and overhear a group of people talking and realize that they are headed to RFK for a Nationals game. I decide to go too and check out a professional baseball game (watching Grace's and Mattie's softball games must have done something to me - in fact, as I type this, I'm halfway watching the women's college world series on ESPN2!!!).

Highlights from the game:

• a great seat around 20 rows back from the Nationals dugout
• the speed of the pitches
• the sound of the ball being hit and caught
• very exciting game against the Braves
• the Nationals (who I was routing for) ended up winning
• enjoying a couple of beers, some peanuts, and a hot dog (even if they did set me back $20)
• the announcer and the singer from the Bud Light "Real American Heroes / Real Men of Genius" ad campaign were there and did an ad based on the Nationals
• Treasury Secretary Snow threw out the first pitch and was seated in front of me (his Secret Service entourage stuck out like sore thumbs in their suits and ear peices) - just reminded me of what a great town DC is for a political junkie
• the rain held out until after the game

I made it back to the hotel without incident, only it was about 5 hours later than I had expected...

Steve Miller/Fly like an Eagle