Uneventful flights except for the fact that the guy at V Australia in Sydney managed to put the honeymoon couple in different rows! We sorted that out and were able to sit together for the 14 hour flight to L.A. Dannii broke her in flight entertainment screen about 2 hours into the flight and it never recovered even after being rebooted.
We got off the plane at about 5pm L.A. time and made our way to the shuttle bus stop and were at the Sheraton Gateway by about 6pm. We checked in got changed and headed down to the concierge desk at about 6.30. We asked about the shuttle bus from the airport to Dodger Stadium that had been mentioned in an email from the hotel and both employees looked at us like we were crazy people. Rather than wasting more time trying to help them understand English we got in a taxi and headed for the stadium. The game was due to start at 7.10pm so we knew we would miss the start but there wasn't a lot we could do about that.
It was freeway the whole way so what we saw of the city on the way to the stadium was the backs of building and billboards and a quite strange greyish sky. The closer we got the stadium the bluer the sky became which we took as a good omen for our evening ahead. Along the way our driver asked how we were getting back to the hotel and we said by taxi so he gave us his number and got our number and said that when we were ready we should give him about 20 minutes and he would come and get us. I guess that the promise of another $60 fare was a good reason for him to offer this service and it made life a lot easier for us as well.
We got to the stadium and went looking for our tickets. Britt, a friend from flickr, had organised through a family member some seats for us and all we had to do was find the right place to pick them up. We got it right on the second try and headed inside. Prior to taking our seats we decided to line up some some food and drinks and consequently missed the only home run of the night. So we can say that we were there for a home run but we just cant say that we saw it. We headed to our seats with our drinks, hot dogs and red licorice!
We were on the second level in the stand down the 3rd base line. Pretty good seats by our reckoning. We both had no real idea about the game. We knew what strikes, balls, outs were but as far as any further intricacies they were lost on us. We did figure out that Manny Ramirez was the Dodgers fans favourite player.
