An Adventure in Time!

Saturday, October 27th 2007, Wake up time: 8:20am


I spent the morning finishing my packing. For breakfast I got myself some toast with jam. It wasn't quite time to leave so I passed the time before we left by reading more of 'The Green Mile.' It was time to go! We packed up the car and set off...but I quickly ran back inside to grab 'Wallis'! I couldn't leave him behind at all. We drove for a while, I read a little but I always get car sick so I tried to get some sleep, as I was so tired but it wasn't easy. 


We stopped off at a rest stop, where I had a blueberry muffin and some milk. We set off again, and I continued to read more of my book. We finally arrived at Grandma's house! I was glad to be able to get out and really stretch and relax without the cramped conditions of the car. We had arrived around lunch time, so Grandma kindly prepared us some turkey and ham and cheese sandwiches! They were wonderful. I scoffed them down and finished it off with a brilliant slice of cranberry pie. 


We planned to spend the day out and about. We travelled a short distance to a place called 'Time Machine Hobby'. It was a wonderful place with lots of different toys and models from the past! What made them better was you could buy them...at exorbitant prices! Ralph was very interested in model trains, so we had a look at them and he bought some pieces for his set at home. We headed down to the basement where the shop had some old games and dolls houses. There were some excellent baseball cards though at the back, some really worth something! I bought a couple of the cheap ones, ones that were mass produced and not in mint condition. I've still got them now, and I love looking at them. I picked them specifically, mainly because they were members of the Boston Red Sox (or most of them were). I even got the 2007 Team Set! I loved 'em. The individual ones I got were...


- Mo Vaugn - A player for the Red Sox, famous for his record number of home runs!


- Jim Lonborg - One of Ralph's favourite pitchers, he played for the Sox but I have his Phillies card.


- David Ortiz - This man needs no introduction! Current Red Sox 'big hitter'.


- Dwight Evans - Another pitcher for the Sox (We got the card because he kind of looks like Ralph.)


- Manny Ramirez -I hope you remember this guy! I got his card from when he played for the Cleveland Indians funnily enough! 


-Terry Francona - The reason we picked up this card was because he's the current manager of the Boston Red Sox...it was from his early days, playing again for the Cleveland Indians! 


Last but not least...
Bruce Hurst - Another excellent pitcher for the Red Sox, a formidable match to any batsman! 


We'd seen all we wanted to, so we headed outside. On the way out, we each got a tootsie pop, mine was a lovely cherry one. We got home, and I had a nap before waking up to a song I'd never heard, but loved immediately. It was Hey There Delilah by the Plain White T's. It was a song that made me really warm inside yet feel an odd sense of melancholy at the same time... give it a listen! I might go re-listen actually, it's a lovely song. 


I went upstairs to have a shave, before coming back down to watch some television. I only watched it for a little while, before it was dinner time. It was actually a birthday dinner for Grandma! We sat down for a sumptuous selection of spaghetti with meatballs, salmon pie (not a favourite of mine!) and some succotash, which is a bean and corn mixed dish...quite lovely! We finished the meal off with the obvious desert choice, birthday cake! 


I had to go upstairs to make the bed I was sleeping in, I did it as quickly as I could. I didn't want to miss the beginning of the third World Series game! It was a lot more interesting than the game on Thursday night! The Sox won...again! They were playing brilliantly. Pabelbon was on top form yet again, and the final score was a satisfying 10 runs to 5. What a game! However, we knew we couldn't rest on our laurels...look what happened to the Cleaveland Indians in the play offs against us! After the game, it was late so I headed straight to bed to get a good nights sleep. 


Thanks for listening.