{"id":864,"date":"2015-07-11T03:43:18","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T03:43:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/?p=864"},"modified":"2015-07-14T00:03:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T00:03:41","slug":"day-12-day-8-of-10-game-7-of-8-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/2015\/07\/11\/day-12-day-8-of-10-game-7-of-8-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Day 12 &#8211; Day 8 of 10 Game 7 of 8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0710151322a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"0710151322a.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0710151322a.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well this was the day of all days for our baseball trip.\u00a0 We are on holy ground at Wrigley field.\u00a0 The field was built in 1905 and we are witnessing the battle of the 2 Chicago teams.\u00a0 The Chicago White Sox Vs the &#8220;Home Team&#8221; Chicago Cubs.\u00a0 The Cubs play their home games at Wrigley field.\u00a0 When you think of a baseball stadium the picture you have of is of Wrigley field.\u00a0 The stadium is old but beautiful with its ivy cover outfield walls with plenty of seating for fans all over the stadium and a number of corporate booths but not too many and not too obvious.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0710151316b.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"0710151316b.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0710151316b.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also I notice that there isnt as much prominant advertising as in other stadiums.\u00a0 The stadium was packed today with both white sox and cub fans.\u00a0 Actually when the White sox won I bet half the crowd stood up and cheered.\u00a0 We started the day getting close to Wrigley field and finding a good place for breakfast.\u00a0 We found a classic diner for breakfast.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0710151118.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"0710151118.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0710151118.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then we got to the game early to take pictures and stroll around.\u00a0 Once inside we were instructed to go to the first timers booth to get our first timers certificate which we did.\u00a0 Also we went up to the observation deck where you can see most of the city from there.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0710151337a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"0710151337a.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0710151337a.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We finally decided to go to our seats.\u00a0 We found them and just relaxed for about an hour before the game started.\u00a0 About 15 minutes before the game started a family of four came over and said we were in their seats.\u00a0 Well sure enough we had gone to the wrong side of the aisle to sit down.\u00a0 We found our actual seats which were in the shade (so we could have been sitting in the shade for an hour instead of the sun).\u00a0 It was a GREAT game.\u00a0 The white sox scored a run in the top of the 8 inning and that was the final score.\u00a0 We got out of the stadium and Ben wanted Deep dish Pizza.\u00a0 So we went and found a place which was packed and it was going to be a 45 minute wait.\u00a0 So we went down the street and found another place which wasnt so crowded.\u00a0 Well as I have found traveling, there maybe be a reason a restaurant is not crowded.\u00a0 The food was OK but not great.\u00a0 We took some home and I asked the Uber driver about the thickness of the pizza we got.\u00a0 He said that what we got wasnt Deep Dish pizza.\u00a0 Oh well !!! &#8230;. Ben left to meet a friend from UCSB and I went back to the RV for the night.\u00a0 We are down to 1 more game.\u00a0 Tomorrow is a driving only day, we have 6 1\/2 hours driving to minnesota&#8230;.. good night&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Oh My &#8230; even Bunny &amp; Scott came out for the Game Today !!!!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0710151325a.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" title=\"0710151325a.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/wpid-0710151325a.jpg\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well this was the day of all days for our baseball trip.\u00a0 We are on holy ground at Wrigley field.\u00a0 The field was built in 1905 and we are witnessing the battle of the 2 Chicago teams.\u00a0 The Chicago White Sox Vs the &#8220;Home Team&#8221; Chicago Cubs.\u00a0 The Cubs play their home games at Wrigley [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":896,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864\/revisions\/896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.griffy-sherlock.com\/homepage\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}