Tomorrow is my 45th birthday, so today I look back at this past year. I had a wonderful 44th year – one of the best of my life! If I had to pick one word to sum up this fantastic year, it would be travel. I traveled to Memphis three times for the Grand Opening of the Guest House at Graceland, [continue reading]
I had the most perfect day at Orioles FanFest on Saturday. Everything went exactly how I wanted it to go. I love it when that happens! I haven’t been to FanFest since 2012 – when I finally got my picture with Brady Anderson. I had met him a handful of times over the years, but had never [continue reading]
Last night was the 20th Anniversary Celebration of Cal Ripken breaking Lou Gehrig’s consecutive game streak. Although the actual date was September 6, 1995, the Orioles will be away that day so they decided to hold the celebration on September 1st. Unfortunately, the stadium was only half [continue reading]
I have been going to Orioles Opening Day every year since 1989 (except when I lived in Memphis) and probably even a few before then. It seems it is always a nice day (I wasn’t here for the snow in 2003), and it seems we always win. Yesterday was no exception. The Orioles defeated the [continue reading]
I know baseball season is over, at least for the Baltimore Orioles, but I just had to share what a great time I had at the first ever Social Media Night at Oriole Park at Camden Yards – more commonly known as #BirdlandSocial. $35 bought me a bleacher seat and entrance to the pre-game party at [continue reading]
Last night was September 6th, the 17th anniversary of Cal Ripken Jr’s 2131st consecutive game when he broke Lou Gehrig’s record. It was also the night of Cal Ripken Jr’s statue dedication ceremony, which I had to witness for myself – and it didn’t hurt that my favorite Brady [continue reading]
I had a lot of fun in April blogging about 26 of my favorite things in the A to Z challenge. So much fun in fact that I wanted to list all of my favorites in this one blog post, each highlighted with links back to the original posts. I have also included some honorable mentions to truly include all [continue reading]