Had a nice day at the Red Sox game today. I managed to get Green Monster seats (the newish seats built on the top of the left field wall) - front row, though way out in the center field area. Very neat seats. At 100 bucks a piece they better be! We had two, so I took my father and daughter. That's the second time I've taken my four-year-old to a game without her own ticket and the staff hasn't questioned it at all. That's one thing that's a huge change since the new ownership has taken over - in addition to the cleaner feel of the place, the attitude of the staff is completely different. It used to be that everyone there was like a life-long T or Amtrak union employee who knew someone who knew someone so they could do anything without worrying about their job. The attitude is now more Disney than anything else, and that's a big and positive change.

My daughter's usually very shy, but she saw a guy making balloon hats and wanted one, so she actually answered the man's questions ("How old are you?" etc...) and held still to get the hat. He was doing this for tips only, BTW.

Pretty comfy seats for Fenway:

Just about directly under the flag and penant. Everyone was looking at us during the National Anthem! (A veteran who lost both arms in Iraq threw out the first pitch. Very emotional. Very class. Standing ovation.)

Not a bad view for high up in the air:

We stayed through the seventh inning. It was a perfect day for a ball game, but sitting with a 4 and an 82 year old is not conducive to lasting out the full nine, so we missed the ninth inning heroics. A good day, though.