Is this the right stadium?

We hopped on the metro to the stadium at about 6. It was easy to find the metro—we just followed a mass of people leaving the Capitol Building after work. We got on the train to the Stadium-Armory stop. When we go off, there was a giant, yellow sign that said “Stadium this way”. We got outside and started walking, but didn’t see any fans and saw a sign for RFK Stadium (where the Nationals used to play), which showed a picture of a soccer team. We found a map that showed where we were, and then across the city, saw a building labeled Nationals Park. We had gone to the wrong stadium!!! The funniest thing was that on the train, I had asked Andrew if we were going to the right stadium, not because I had doubts, but just because I wanted to know. He said he was about 95% sure. In hindsight, we should have realized it was the wrong stop and train since there was no one wearing any sports attire!

We got back on the train and made it to the correct stop—we saw lots of people wearing Nationals apparel!

We hadn’t bought tickets beforehand because they don’t usually sell out, so we bought them at the ticket window for $10 each—the cheapest so far. Instead of walking around the stadium, like we have done at other stadiums to see what kinds of food they had, we bought hot dogs and our souvenir soda right away. Hot dogs were $1 each, but only at a certain vendor!!

I took this picture to show just how many Nationals fans make it to the games. There were more fans at the Boston Red Sox game at midnight than at this game at 8:30!!

Instead of racing Connie’s Pizza slices, like U.S. Cellular does, they race presidents. Thomas Jefferson won this race!!

Andrew eating hot dog number 3!! We got 4 hot dogs for less than the price of one at Yankee Stadium!

It actually turned out to be a good game. A lot of people left in the 7^th and 8^th innings, but in the bottom of the 9^th, the Nationals scored 3 runs. Unfortunately, they lost 7-5.