3 a.m.? Really?

Well, this has been an interesting first day. Looks like we'll be getting to bed at about 4 a.m. for the second night (morning) in a row. At least we're in Jersey, and close to New York City where we need to be for the 1 p.m. Yankees game. Hmm, guess that's in about 10 hours.

So, although the Nationals WON their game, we didn't see it. By the time we were getting to the game there was a storm a'brewin' and the radio guys were talking delay. Even before it started raining, they covered the field and started what ended up being a 3 hour rain delay. We had to drive four hours post-game so had to decide if we would wait out a delay and by 9 p.m. decided, yeah, that's not gonna happen, especially because there was still pretty nasty lightning flashing. They eventually beat the Padres 13-1 in what was probably a really enjoyable game. Wonder if anyone was actually there to see it, since the concessions closed sometime during the delay? We've actually never had a weather problem like this in all our past games, so probably shouldn't complain too much.

Getting to our hotel was interesting too. Kristina knew the route most of the way but just needed assistance navigating the last little bit to the town near Jersey City where we're staying. We always have Jason, her old-model Mio GPS, to help, but he sometimes does wacky things because he's not always aware of minor and major road changes since whenever it was his maps were installed, so he had us get off the Jersey Turnpike in a seemingly random way. We also had the mobile Google maps. However, it was extremely confusing coming into the area around the hotel. Jason and the Google maps differed. As Kristina said, "I think this situation is a result of a perfect storm that includes: my not being totally aware and missing nuances of the roads; Jason taking us off the turnpike just because apparently he thought we'd like to see the Jersey Gardens Mall; and Google maps' tendency to say, 'Oh, you're gonna want over there somewhere, I'll tell you more once you get over there. Let me know..." I said, "Yeah, and if TomTom was on, he would have said, 'Eff you all, you should listen to me, who has the newest maps?'" (TomTom is my new birthday gift GPS from Kris and Steph but we didn't figure we needed three guides. Apparently we did). Jason came through in the end. He actually usually does despite his quirks.

Anyway, sorry if this sounds grumpy. Need to sleep. We'll hopefully be writing about the new Yankee Stadium tomorrow (later today, I guess).