We made it into Philadelphia on time and took the SEPTA subway from the 30th Street Station to the AT&T Station, about a 2-block walk to Citizen’s Bank Park. On our way the skies opened up with heavy rain and thunderstorms. We still made it to the park with some other brave souls hoping to wait out the rain for a ballgame. We got our famous Phily Cheesesteaks at Campo’s Steaks in Ashburn Alley. I had been waiting the whole trip for this and I wasn’t going to let a bit of rain spoil my fun. If nothing else we were well fed, if not soaking wet. We braved it out until nearly 10 PM when the words you hate to hear more than any others in a trip like this came out, GAME POSTPONED. We had a very well plan trip tripped up by a rainout. We decided to get back to 30th Street Station and catch the 11:30PM train back to Washington to pick up the car. In the meantime we cut Russ loose and told him to give us better weather the next time we were in town. He told me I had given him more than enough of the Seattle rain in his lifetime that he felt like he almost owed us. That’s what friends are for, huh? With a 2-hour train ride back to DC it was time to plunge into heavy research to get this trip back on track (so to speak). The decision was make to sleep in Saturday morning, get back into the van and head back to Philadelphia. We’ll have plenty of time, as the game in Philadelphia is a 4:15PM start. During our research we decided to skip our Saturday game in Pittsburgh to later in the trip. There is a slot in the schedule that will make this fit in most likely July 2, but it does eliminate a planned off date of July 4 and will necessitate the longest single leg in this trip. Frankly waiting in Philadelphia for the game that never started is truly exhausting and now it’s off to bed with no alarm to wake me up.
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