Day 24

Today we drove from New Bern, NC to Boston. At one point in the scheduling, we considered driving straight from Miami to Boston. I’m sure everyone involved is glad we took a short break. 

The drive was fairly easy, and our last overnight one of the whole adventure. There were very few mishaps on this leg, including a bit of reverse driving near a toll booth, but it’s a laughable moment now. We made the drive a little longer than it needed to be so that we could drive into New Hampshire. With all of our maps and planning, we realized we would be driving through a total of 36 states on this trip. Well, 36 is very close to 37 and we will be on the road for a grand total of 37 days. Megan talked us into going a bit out of our way to get the 37th state, and she almost slept through the whole 30 seconds we were over the state line. 
  After paying a ridiculous amount of money for parking we rushed over to Fenway Park for our pre-game activities. We were greeted by Red Sox Ambassador, Carter Reed, who took us down to batting practice and gave us a private tour of the park. Since it was a Sunday afternoon game, we weren’t anticipating there being any batting practice, however, due to the recent lacking performance of the team, it was mandatory, which was nice for us. 
  We were able to see the press box, the club seats, and got to hang out on the Green Monster for a while to watch the rest of batting practice. During that, we saw some balls fly over the Green Monster and hit cars that were parked in the same structure we were. Thankfully we were parked on the lower level and there was no denting danger. Carter was even able to get us a seat upgrade. Coming into the park we had standing room only seats, which we wouldn’t really recommend. 
The Red Sox took on the Blue Jays today, and it wasn’t pretty. This was the first game we had been to where the fans were boo-ing the home team. The Red Sox have a lot of work to do, but it was an enjoyable game none-the-less. We saw three home runs during the game, and one of them went over the Green Monster. There were a few mistakes throughout the game, like two Blue Jays running into the Green Monster while running for a catch, and three Red Sox running, stopping, and missing a catch. This was also the most runs we have seen out of any one team this trip. 
  One of the funniest moments that didn’t really impact the game, were the two hooligans that ran onto the field. They were caught relatively quickly, but the crowd ate it up. The sound guy played “Drunken Sailor” as the two guys were carried off the field and one of them danced along with the music. It was very funny. 
  After the game we drove to Old Lyme, CT to stay with Tim’s grandparents for the night. We got our third “Made by a Grandma” meal of the week (lasagna) and had a very relaxing night spending time with the grandparents before being sent off to bed at a very reasonable hour.