Happy Father's Day! Today, we spent Father's Day at Fenway Park's walk around the field. If the Red Sox happen to be away on Father's Day, the Red Sox organization opens Fenway Park to the public. You are allowed to walk around the warning track, visit Wally, sit in the dugout, and have your picture taken with the 2004 and 2007 World Series trophies. Also, a couple of former Red Sox players were available for autographs. Alex got Bob Montgomery's autograph. We took advantage of this experience and it was the perfect day for it. Then we went to Jerry Remy's Sport's Bar and Grill for lunch.
Tickets to a Red Sox game can be difficult to get at an affordable price. The great thing about today's event is that it allows families to affordably experience the allure of visting Fenway Park.
Here are a couple of other ways to experience Fenway Park without buying tickets to a game:
The Futures of Fenway is August 18 this year. This is a doubleheader game of minor league teams. This year the teams are the Red Sox A affiliate Lowell Spinners taking on the Hudson Valley Renegades from the Tampa Bay Rays organization. The second game matches the AAA Pawtucket Red Sox vs. the Buffalo Bisons, an affiliate from the New York Mets organization. Ticket prices start at a low cost of $5/ticket.
You can also take a tour of Fenway Park. Tours are offered daily from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. On a game day, the last tour is three hours before the start of the game. Ticket prices are $16.00 for adults and $12.00 for children. Alex took the Fenway Park tour on a field trip and came home with many funny stories and a possible sighting of Mike Aviles. According to Alex, he drives a white car.
Alex's favorite player is Jacoby Ellsbury. Before we left the field, he wanted to take a long look at center field and see the part of the field where Jacoby plays. Although he admires watching Jacoby play, I'm glad that his biggest role model is not a Red Sox player, but his dad. I think that today's dads do not get the credit and respect that they deserve. Dads today seem to be portrayed in television shows and in the media as bumbling fools that don't help with their kids or know how to take care of them. The current example is Phil Dunphy from the television show, Modern Family. Senator Scott Brown's campaign thinks that being a good dad is such an exceptional skill that his campaign is currently running an ad showing how helpful he is around the house. Most of the dads that I know are equal partners in raising their kids. They are taking their kids to school, feeding them breakfast, helping them with homework, coaching their teams, doing the dishes, picking up toys, mowing the lawn, and the rest of the endless household chores. My husband does all this and more. Craig, thank you for being such an amazing dad and role model for our son. He's growing up to be an incredible human being because he has an amazing man like you as a role model.
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