I just got back to California from Ohio, and since I never did blog about my ballgame or Chautauqua, I might as well do that now. Better late than never, dudes. Indians game: Water is wet. Grass is green. I'm pretty into baseball. All obvious statements. So I've basically been excited and waiting for this game all 364 days that I wasn't at Progresssive Field. I'd picked the date out pretty much a week after the 2017 schedule came out. July 8th. It was one of three of the Indians sold out games of the year, and clocked in at 47,000 diehard, crazed Indians fans, all ready to crush one of our arch rivals, the Detroit Tigers. It was also Andrew Miller's jersey night, so that was one of the big factors for me. We got there at 3:40 ish, and just to clarify, that's about an hour and a half before the gates even opened. So we walked all around before being the first of one of the lines. Of course we weren't the only ones though. Anyways, we were probably one of the first 200 to get 2 of the 12,500 Miller jerseys that they were handing out. We got great seats right between left field and third base. My dad stayed in his seat while I ran down by the Tribe's dugout to try for an autograph/get to be super close to the players. Francisco Lindor was signing, but of course he stopped right when he was getting towards the middle section where I was. ![]() □ I got to watch them warm up at basically this distance away from me, which basically made my year. This is them standing for the National Anthem, or, as I choose to believe, them posing for me to take the perfect photo that will eventually become my wallpaper for the next 6-8 months. Thanks dudes! Cleveland fans are hardcore. It was only in 2016 that the city of Cleveland won its first championship in 52 years and ended the drought. The city's sports history is so impressively tragic that you'd think the fan count would be close to nothing. But nope. To me it is a friggin miracle that the Cleveland Browns' FirstEnergy stadium could continue to sell so many tickets game after game with the Browns being, well, the Browns. But that's just who we are. And it is the best thing ever as a Cleveland fan to get to experience a sold out crowd screaming their lungs out, booing the other team, and attempting the wave, all while watching your favorite players 100 feet away. Yeah, I had a pretty amazing time. We shut them out 4-0, which was not the most intense score but I'll totally take it. Chautaqua: If you've never heard of Chautaqua, just picture a summer camp/country club for grown-ups. It's got lectures on all sorts of topics; it's got orchestras and plays and ballets; it's got an amazing bookstore and a lakefront; it's basically a nerd's paradise. My gran goes there every year, and this time she decided to bring me (Shoutout to Gran, thank you so much for taking me!). I had been there once before with a day pass, and it is such a cool place that I totally wanted to go again. There are lots of places to walk or bike since there's special brick streets with no cars. Lots of photo-worthy buildings and houses, very old/Victorian style. The day we got there we ate pizza in the main square and then walked back to the Athenaeum Hotel, where we were staying. I read on the one of the many porches for a couple of hours, and then went down to dinner at the hotel restaurant. After dinner we went to the huge amphitheater to see a ballet, which I unfortunately was not allowed to photograph. It was pretty amazing, and the amphitheater was really close to the hotel, so we didn't have to walk very far. In the mornings I went to go get coffee and did a lot of walking/reading. I then met up with Gran and we went to a strange but entertaining play (Noises Off!) that afternoon, and had dinner shortly after. We left in the morning fully rested and happy. So yesterday we got off the plane in San Francisco, took the Airporter to Larkspur, picked up my sister, and *surprise!* got on the San Francisco ferry to go see another baseball game! San Francisco versus, wait for it, the one and only Cleveland Indians. I know. How crazy is that?! I mean really, we had just been in NorthEast Ohio, then after a 5 hour plane trip we go and see the NorthEast Ohio baseball team. It took some logistics, but we made it happen. We lost, which I don't really want to discuss, but it was a pretty cool experience to get to see a baseball game, especially your team, right after getting off the plane. It was perfect weather, and, for my sister's first major league game, we could've done worse.
whew, I'm done bloggin. I'm gonna go to the beach. xo, Victoria ✌️
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I don't know, but I think that my summer has peaked. I honestly have no idea what's gonna top this concert. It. Was. So. Great. So this was my first big concert. This summer going to a concert was probably the main thing on my bucket list, and I'm so lucky that it was U2. So my dad and I headed to Cleveland to see the 30th anniversary Joshua Tree show, which my dad had seen live 30 years ago, making it super special. We got awesome parking (always a priority that pays off so much), walked around downtown before the show, and got to FirstEnergy Stadium an hour before it started. OneRepublic started for them, which was another bonus. U2 came out right when it started to get dark, and it was lit. Two and a half hours of perfect music, as well as amazing lights. After doing 6 of their other hits, they began Joshua Tree in order from start to finish. Ugh it was so good. They did encore songs too, which were all perfect. We had the best time, and like I said before, I don't know what's going to top it. We left Cleveland at around midnight. There was some major traffic going on so we had to wait for about 25 minutes, but it was entertaining with the awesomely obnoxious Clevelanders laying on their horns and sitting out their windows. We got home at 2 ish. It was so awesome to be in Cleveland, and l'll be back there soon for the Indians game!
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Victoria Adams is an Alaskan teen who loves photography, airports, baseball, books, ferry rides, anything aesthetically pleasing, and strong coffee. She impulsively wanted to start a blog to post pictures of her travels and write about them in article format. Her pictures on this blog are taken on an iPhone 6s.
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