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Crab Cakes and Baseball!
According to the movie Wedding Crashers, Maryland is known for crabcakes and football. However, it was crabcakes and their baseball team that impressed the Four Horsemen today.
I’ll get to the game, but first let’s talk about how we got there.
We enjoyed a quality night of sleep last night at VanZandt’s cousin’s house in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, until we awoke to Caeser the parrot squawking in the next room. We went ahead and got up, went downstairs, and called Big D & Bubba to sing the song we wrote a few days ago. We sang our hearts out, with our hosts Brian and Stefanie, humming along with the tune. The catchy little ditty caught Big D & Bubba by surprise and surely delighted our fans. After our tune, we sat down to a huge stack of pancakes, scrambled eggs, fruit salad, and blueberry muffins. After stuffing ourselves, we packed up the car, thanked our generous hosts, and hit the road.
The trip to Baltimore was smooth until an intersection incident where we rear-ended a car in front of us, right in front of the stadium. As it ended up, no damage was done to the other car, so we proceeded into the parking lot and found a spot. Clay Buccholz hooked us up with sweet tickets once again, and we thoroughly enjoyed our perch 35 rows behind the plate.
Red Sox started Jon Lester sailed through five innings of shutout baseball until he floated into stormy waters and was pulled after only 86 pitches. After a duo of Boston relievers loaded the bases, Hideki Okajima entered the game and was greeted by Jay Payton with a go-ahead grand slam to left field. This big fly put the O’s ahead for good, sealing their 6-3 win.
On the way to our hotel, we found a ziploc bag of leftover pancakes from breakfast and took turns hurling them at cars as they exited off the highway we were on. Although we were unsuccesful in our attempt to frisbee them inside open car windows, we received dirty looks and some laughs along the way.
After our pancake escapades, we checked into our hotel room, given to us by a friend of Ed’s mom, and headed to O’Brycki’s for some crab cakes. Although a little pricey, the delicate chunks of crab formed an indivisible melody of goodness that alerted our tastebuds to the delicacy of the pinching little creatures.
We are back in our hotel room now, watching some playoff basketball and regurgitating today’s happenings. We’re headed to Washington D.C. in the morning for a tour of the White House and the Nationals Stadium, as well as a stop at any of the other famous landmarks we see.
Thanks to all the people that donated today for the Komen foundation! We recently received word that a friend donated $1,000 to the Susan G. Komen for the Cure in our name, so we have now raised close to $2,000! Keep spreading the word and donating at http://www.active.com/donate/tylerkomen08/4horsemen !!
Sleep is calling my name so I am signing off- see ya’ll tomorrow!
-Aaron
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