Milwaukee

Never have I seen baseball fans tailgate! I likely never will again. Occasionally, in places that aren’t plopped in neighborhoods, you will see people drinking at their car before the game. Sometimes, they will try to visit with a friend they came with and eat a quick snack before they enter a game. In cities like Boston and Baltimore, they close off a street and people hang out and visit and drink their beer and eat their brats outside the park but in close vicinity. This was NOTHING like that. This was full-on tailgating. After pulling into the parking lot, barbeques and fold out chairs appeared from nowhere. Several cars’ worth of people would gather around one grill and await food. Games were played – catch, football, beanbag toss, anything you could imagine. Whole families – extended families were gathering together at tables they unfolded from their trunks to eat and enjoy company before the game! WOW! We were even offered some really yummy corn that had been grilled next to us. We felt a little silly sitting on the back of our car and eating our chips and dip, but it was an AWESOME experience.

The game was really fun to as all of the people had been working up to the excitement of the game for the last two hours. We had great seats only about 20 rows behind home plate and our neighboring fans were very excited to be at the game. The stadium has a retractable roof and was a little too mechanical to be a ball park, but would have been nice protection for rain and sun had it been rainy or daytime. The only down side was the promotion for the evening was lunchboxes and they wouldn’t part with one – even for my hypothetical 6 year old at home – oh well.