Quick Recap

Sorry for the lack of posting recently, but we have been without a computer since Chicago. But here's a quick recap of the past few days for us.

We traveled up to Madison, Wisconsin to stay with Uncle Ron and catch a few Brewers games in Milwaukee. But before our tour hit Miller Park, we stopped to watch a Madison Mallards game at "The Duck Pond." The Mallards are a Single-A summer league team made basically for college players who need to stay sharp while they are away from school. The Mallards game was a spectacle to say the least. Their motto is "Baseball the way it ought to be," which is true if you think that the stands should be filled with young kids and tipsy college students.

Miller Park once again proved that the Wisconsin specialties are beer and bratwurst. The tailgate parties were especially extravagant, but the ratio of people to porta-potty was about 20:1, which Dan and I both found funny. As for baseball, we saw my Giants win twice (!!) on two great outings by Noah Lowry and rookie phenom Tim Lincecum, who has garnered the nickname "The Franchise," just to give you some perspective on the young pitcher. Oh, and Bonds went 0-6. More importantly, our personal streak of 8 games in 8 days came to an end on Sunday.

Now we are in Cincinnati, where we caught a Reds game and took a day trip to the Louisville Slugger Museum and Muhammad Ali Center yesterday. But the highlight of the day came at the baseball game when Dan May caught a foul ball hit by Brewer's rookie Ryan Braun. Dan then proceeded to boast about his "cat-like" reflexes for the remainder of the evening. In all honesty, it was a pretty impressive play considering that the ball played plinko in the stands before it jumped into our seats.

We'll be in Cincinnati until Friday morning, when we set off on the homestretch of our summer. It's 350 miles to St. Louis, then another 250 to Kansas City, and the grand finale of 600 miles to Denver.