We are continuing to take great joy in watching the Olympics.  I am especially enjoying things like the women's shot-put from ancient Olympia, and watching the women's marathon today, as it was run along the ancient route from Marathon to Athens.

Last night the Tigers game was a lot of fun. It was a high scoring game that went into extra innings, with the Tigers winning. For once they did not slip their fans one of these: . We sat in an odd area of the stadium, like nothing I have seen before...it was a small area behind the regular seats of the main bowl, tucked underneath the luxery boxes. It was perhaps ten rows deep, and ran quite a ways along the stadium. Rather than having stadium seats, they had oversized and comfortably padded large wooden lawn chairs, and litttle wooden tables for you to put your food and pop on. People can (and do) move around the furniture as required by their group. It was very relaxing, and happy there. It was like watching a baseball game from a back yard deck, or while attending a picnic. And the chairs were infinately more comfortable than the usual stadium seats.

In addition, Ticketmaster had sent us a coupon for a free bobblehead when they sent us our tickets, and they were giving away backpacks to all of the kids Steven was pretty happy to get those.. They also had a very nice foreworks show after the game. All in all, it was a good experience, and Stevie especially seemed to have a wonderful time.

Before the game we ate dinner in Greektown, at Hellas restaurant. The food was good, and we enjoyed the flaming cheese. It is a short walk to both Comerica Park and Ford Field fron Greektown, so that is where we parked.

Bill's high school soccer season begins tomorrow, and the first day of school is Tuesday. It will be a half day...and there will be a soccer game right after school at 11AM...