Take me out to the ballpark...

Take me out to the game...

i went to St Petersburg for a few days and went to watch the boston red sox play the tamp bay rays at tropicana baseball field in st Petes.

My ex-housemate Matt has come to stay with us in orlando for 10days, and is addicted to the baseball, he supports red sox as his sister lives in boston and took him to a game once upon a time. So he requested the company of myself and Nicola to one of 3 baseball games, and he went to one alone.

So we woke up on monday morning very early and caught a taxi to the greyhound bus station, caught a bus to tampa, then a bus from tampa to st pete. We arrived in what i would describe as the ghetto area of st pete, and walked quickly to the tropicana field to pick up our baseball tickets for that evening.

We then took a taxi to our motel/hotel in a lovely place called treasure island, which was virtually on the beach. How lovely....may i say how rainy and crappy this day was, so the gulf of mexico did not look so attractive. Any road, we swam a little in the pool and got some gorgoues food with real chips, not fries, like crinkly oven chips from the hotel restuarant called sloppy joe's. well nice.

Then we took our taxi to the basball field, readily kitted with borrowed boston red sox gear from matt and had a wander round the ground before finding our seats and being told the rules of baseball.

yes indeedy, i now know the rules of baseball, and understand a game. Happily we won 8-4, and it was a pretty good game, we even made some new american friends who joined us later on and hung out on the beach at night.
it was a beautiful view, i love the sky, espeically when its soooooo long you cant take all the sky in with one look, and you have to move your entire head, it was gorgoues, with the lights on the coastline was beautiful truly was.

The next day i got nicely sunburnt and we ate at sloppy joes again, this day the weather was beautiful, with a nice breeze, great tan seriously great!

However our last day, was a journey and a half....laugh or cry seriously!

we started off requesting a free late checkout then ate at sloppy joes, again, and decided as the weather was crap and thers utterly nothing to do in st pete or treasure island without spending a lot of money, that we would see if we could get an earlier bus home, so we took a taxi who was 30mins late pickin us up, to the ghetto greyhound station.
we missed the bus by 5minutes! so we had a lovely 4 hour wait in the ghetto.
Nic n Matt had books...i had minimum credit and battery on my phone, so after 40mins we took a lil walk to a nearby shop to top my phone up n get a lil picnic or crisps.we hurried as we were pretty sure we were gonna be mugged raped or murdered in this drug addicted neighbourhood! SERIOUSLY! and the greyhound buses are used mainly by homeless people i swear its awful, i will never take one again!

So anyway, after waiting 2 hours, and making friends with a strange guy in a cowboy hat, a woman who talked to herself n a guy with no legs, the only woman who worked in this little station waiting room came in from the back guns blazing screamin and shouting at her "crack addict partner" calling him a thief n what not and threatening to kick him out and shoot him in the head. We were terrified, and then thought we were all gonna be shot by her for giggling uncontrollably at our situation!!!!! during her domestic she answered the phone and put them on hold, to continue screaming at her partner, and then began selling a ticket to a new guy in the waiting room, and continued to throw things at her partner.

after 10mins i turned to nicola who was still giggling and asked if that person was still on hold, and then the woman stormed out, er partner running after her, and the guy at the counter said he hoped som1 else wud sell im a ticket. HILARIOUS!!!!
anywho, later on after shed calmed down n got back to the phone, a crack addict customer sat outside would not leave the property, and she asked him to leave and he got up with what looked like a gun and started on her, well we thought we were gonna die, seriously, the guy in the cowboy hat ran outside n pushed him over. turns out the gun was just his hand and he left.

SCARY!

so eventually the bus came and we were like thank goodness for that! We got on, and firstly i put my hand in something. i dont know what but i refused to do anything with my hand until i had hand sanitizer on it! then nicola went to get some tissue from the bus toilet....omg she came back with ehr hand over her mouth and said " under no circumstances, go over there. for no reason whatsoever. u wud rather hav dioherra in ur knickers seriously" well i was wetting myself laughin, and then as the bus set off i discovered my bus window was ready to fall off. I dont think ive laughed so much in my entire life. seriously hilarious. oh yea and then there was a screaming child the entire journey!

wonderful!

we got home eventually, and i was glad! seriously glad!!!!!


never again!

never ever again!