Boating, Baseball, and...... Bobbleheads?

My friends R and A, along with myself all have summer birthdays, and usually we plan a Girls Weekend trip.  Last year was white water rafting (YAY for not dying!), and before that we’ve done Atlantic City.

This year I asked if we could stick around DC due to my upcoming trip to Florida….

So we started looking for something to do.  R found this site…..
They offered a Sailing and Baseball outing.

We agreed pretty fast….and bought our package.

We went to an O’s game back in May… and experienced a crazy Rain Delay, so I was a little worried about the weather… but the weather was great…. sunny and warm (but not crazy humid).

For the sailing portion they said we could BYOB, so at first we planned to bring our own beer/wine from home plus assorted snacks, but then I remembered DC sells beer/wine in grocery stores….. and since there is a Safeway right at the Waterfront metro stop I suggested we load up there. And load up we did… wine, olives, cheese, crackers , and strawberries!!

Then it was a quick walk to the Marina.  We loaded up and there was a pretty decent crowd (luckily no Potluck Bitch this time).  It was a great sail (about 2 hours), the best Irish Cheddar ever

…. and I am happy to report my sunscreen worked… No sunburn!!!!

Next up…..back on the Metro.. to Navy Yard… and OMG!  The train was packed… I have never seen it that packed… we literally had to shove ourselves on…. Luckily only one stop….. This is why I usually try to walk from Capitol South….

Next up, we arrived at the park… and I had already heard via Twitter that the Centerfield gate was out of Pudge Rodriguez bobbleheads (see Twitter is useful ), so we tried another gate… alas they too were out.

Oh well… its not like it was a Sasha Semin  bobblehead

We made our way to our seats (picking up maybe the best Grilled Cheese sandwich … ever!!!).

It was a great game …. Nats Won! (I’m 3 for 3 at Baseball games this year!!!)  Though there were some weird delays to the game, where we couldn’t figure out what was going on….luckily Twitter kept us informed about who got tossed!!

Sorry Dibble my friends and I didn’t talk about shopping…. but we did talk about pie.  Dangerously Delicious Pie to be exact.  We convinced ourselves to head to the H St corridor…. but I’ll cover than in the next post.

After the game everyone headed to the Navy Yard metro…. and WTF?!?!!?  Metro needs to run 8 car trains for their baseball express trains.  The platform was packed, but we somehow piled onto the 2nd train thru and headed to Gallery Place to catch the bus to H St NE……