Wednesday, March 5th - Ash Wednesday

After breakfast this morning, we took a walk around the neighborhood. I know that when warm weather arrives at home, we will need to get this exercise early in the day when it is cooler. I do think the angle to this Florida sunshine at this time of the year makes it feel much warmer than in Maryland.

 

 

We went to Hope Lutheran Church for the Ash Wednesday morning service. I was a bit surprised at the number of people who were there, but when I noticed most all of them were our ages, I understood that like us, they probably wanted to remain at home during the evening.

 

 

 

 

 

After church, we made a couple of stops, one of which included lunch at Johnny Rockets. For a while, it seemed like we were back in our teenage days as we listened to so many of the old rock and roll songs we knew so well.

 

 

 

Barb and Jim returned from their short trip to Key West. We had bought tickets to the Twins vs. Orioles game which was played tonight at Minnesota’s spring training home stadium. The Twins are the process of a $44,000,000 reconstruction project at this facility. We think the Ed Smith Stadium in Sarasota is much nicer and they seem to have more fan interaction throughout the game.

 

 

 

 

 

Orioles fans were definitely in the minority here, but there were enough of us to make a good noise.

 

I found out from one of the stadium employees that there is some term in some contract that the traveling team is only required to play two of their regular roster players. We didn’t see very many of the men who will be playing in Baltimore this year.  Our team had a bad start as a result from some untimely errors, but they came back and got a big lead which they never gave up. A lead is never a sure thing during these games because so many different players being constantly put in the game.

 

There was a fireworks display after the game, but we didn’t stay for it. We had parked far enough away that a tram transported us back to our car. We were able to see the fireworks from the tram and our driver stopped along the way so that we all could enjoy the show and take photos.