WBC Part II: USA falls to Japan

To say that I was a little conflicted would be an understatement.  I rooted for Japan back in the '06 Classic but I have been pretty solidly behind USA for this one.  When we got to the game I couldn't decide how to go dressed!

I ended up going in decked out in my Japan gear wearing my USA jersey underneath closest to my heart...

Isaac and I got a lot of weird looks walking together since he was in all USA!  For some reason no one gave me a hard time though...maybe the beard?

So back to the All-You-Can-Eat section...had to come up with something new.  Since having been there yesterday, I perfected part of my craft.  I realized that I ate way too much bread with the hot dogs yesterday so today I made the 4 in 1.  See below:

Since Japan was trouncing USA I started feeling guilty and decided to show my true loyalty (with my Japan hat still on)!!!

All in all I think everyone had a good time! Ok maybe just the Japanese people behind Isaac haha!

Stay tuned for the last installment of our WBC Trip tomorrow: Part III

WBC Trip Part I: Korea vs Venezuela

For Christmas this past year I bought Isaac and I (selfish I know) tickets to see the 2 semifinal and final games of the World Baseball Classic. Today was the first game and there were some really cool things about the game. I was rooting for Korea which made the experience even better! Korea was up 5-0 after the first inning, 

and ended up easily beating Venezuela 10-2. 

Even with the lopsided victory I came up with a list of the top 5 reasons I still had a blast:

#5 We got to participate in timeless traditions like leaving peanut shells and such on the floor (we actually cleaned up after ourselves it was just a bit!)...

#4 We got to see the same giant flag of Korea held up by people all over the stadium.

#3 Isaac did some of his famous impersonations...can you guess who he's doing?  It is actually very accurate! 

 

#2 There was ALL-You-Can-Eat Food in the section we were in, including (hot dogs, nachos, peanuts, popcorn, bottled water, and fountain drinks!!!

and the #1 reason I had a blast.......drum roll please..........

I got to hang out with my bro!

Tell me which was your favorite reason!!!

Stay tuned for part II and III...

Japan warms up against the Cubs

So my mom told me and Isaac that the Japan National Team was going to be playing the Cubs at Spring Training and I started laughing that I had to correct her because I told her they were in the middle of the World Baseball Classic and would not be in lowly Arizona to play the Cubs at Spring Training.  After I decided to humor her and check the website she saw this info. on, I was excited to see she was actually right!  Isaac bought us some great seats behind home plate and he and I got to go watch the game.  It was a great time and a bunch of big name players played for both teams.  Japan won (who we wanted to win) and we really enjoyed ourselves.  

Snow, snow, Snow, Snow...snow.

It won't be long before we'll all be there with snow... Isaac, Israel and I had a very fun time yesterday. We took a little trip to Flagstaff, AZ. We went to Snow-bowl. It was really fun! It didn't start off too fun! Let me just start by telling you that It's been 2 years since I last went snow boarding (for the first and only time). So yesterday was time number 2. It was also time number 2 for Israel. We decided it would be a good thing to try the little bunny hill as a warm up. ....that was a bad idea. The little bunny hill was so icy, so holy, so dirty and so small of an incline... It was awful! We were sliding around uncontrollably! I realized during this run that a helmet made me feel claustrophobic!!! OK... On to bigger hills... We then went up the lift... When trying to get off I slipped and so then pushed into him and he was forced back into his seat. I fell down on the snow and he went a few feet and then fell off the seat onto his head and the guy controlling the lift had to stop the lift for a moment to get us up and out of the way! It was pretty awful!!! Israel had to take 3 tylenol so he could continue snow boarding! I don't think that Israel will ever be willing to go up the lift with me EVER again!!! So the first hour and a half was pretty H@#*-ish!!! The rest of the time was better! The larger hill was much more enjoyable! We weren't great @ snow boarding, but we did have fun! We would both go a ways and fall and watch each other go a ways and fall! We were doing pretty good! I think the next time we go (hopefully next week) we will be way better! I'm excited to get real good! I love it!