Trip to Chavez Latrine (a few pics)

Hey Everyone, it's been a while since I've been around to post or comment at all. 

I got married on the 17th, and for our honeymoon, my wife and I went down to Disneyland and also to one of the Giants vs Bums games last week. We were at the epic clash on Tuesday, 7/20, and I've learned a few things about LA in general:

1) When driving in LA, if you don't know exactly where you're going, you're not getting there.

2) When you need to move over a lane, you don't hope to find someone nice enough to let you over; you hope to find someone paying little enough attention that you have an opportunity to cut them off.

3) Dodgers fans have to be the only group that can be incredibly hostile and apathetic at the same time.

The fan sitting next to me was more interested in taking pictures of the crowd and then zooming in on the photo she just took to try to pick out famous people in it than in actually watching the game.

We sorted through our pictures and thought you might want to see a few of them.  Our camera wasn't the greatest, and a lot of the action shots didn't turn out, unfortunately.  It's a good camera for close-up stuff, but the zoom on it was a bit lacking.  Ah well.

It was about an hour-and-a-half drive from the hotel in Orange County to the Stadium, the last 30 minutes of which were the last 2 miles.  We didn't particularly enjoy sitting under this sign for a good 5 minutes while the cars in front of us let their passengers out to walk on ahead.

By the 3rd inning, the seats were starting to fill up.

If anyone would like a field day for photoshopping our resident laughingstock, here ya go:

I can't tell you how beautiful it was to be able to take this picture:

After the game, I also loved taking a picture of one of their water bottles, corrected:

It was James Loney Bobblehead night, and when they handed me one, someone said "Hey, he's got a Giants shirt on, he doesn't want one!" but I replied "Yeah I do, you don't know what I'm going to do to it..."

I had big plans for it, I was going to take a poll here for how best to treat it, but it wouldn't fit in the luggage, so I had to make do in the hotel room.

I didn't even need to do anything to it for it to be a bit embarrassing to Loney.  The bobblehead even has him wetting himself.  I swear it came out of the box like that.  Just too perfect, considering he was the one who called Mattingly back to the mound =)

I wasted no time "improving it" though:

Boy, he's just falling apart there...

That has to be one of the best games we'd ever been to.  We couldn't believe that the fans were doing the wave during a full-count, bases-loaded jam, even though we'd heard stories about them. 

Definitely an experience, it was a blast going into enemy territory and watching the Bums implode on themselves like that.  I don't know that we'll ever go back, but it was definitely worth hitting up once at least.