Chattanooga, Tennessee

With only about 36 hours in the very clean and very friendly city of Chattanooga, Tennessee, we really did not get to do a whole lot of 'site seeing'. We arrived in Atlanta, Georgia on Thursday, July 24, 2008, after a 4.5 hours flight from Vancouver, and we still had to make the 1.5 hour drive to Chattanooga from Atlanta. We did not arrive until after midnight, and we were all jet-lagged from the long flight back to the east coast.

The next day, we basically woke up and went to the ballpark (everyone on our crew slept until atleast noon) and were all still dragging from our flight the night before. The Chattanooga Lookouts are the Double-A Affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds, and their ballpark is fairly new, was built with private money, and basically sits atop the city on a hill. The ballpark was built, similar to Billings, and it is easily noticable that they cut corner's to save money. It is a shame that these organizations are putting forth half-ass efforts to build just average stadiums. I am sure that once I am on the inside of one of these transactions, I will see just how much money can be spent, but it does not make sense to me....

Anyways, Chattanooga has another great set of fans, and our game was very very easy on that night. We were all still very tired from the long week we had already had and it seemed as if we were just going through the motions, but we did what was needed and it came across as a success, and that is all that matters!

The next day, Saturday, July 26, 2008, we flew from Chattanooga to Charlotte, had a hour lay-over and then from Charlotte to Seattle. Our flight was late leaving Charlotte because one of our planes passengers had a family emergency and she needed to leave the plane, so that put us back almost an hour. The flight from Charlotte to Seattle seemed to take forever (well actually it was just over 5 hours) but we are currently here, actually in Everett, Washington. We have a game today, July 28, 2008, but I wanted to get everybody updated while I had some time :)

I hope all is going well; it is amazing to think that July is almost behind us, and that I will be home in less then 4 weeks!!!! It is nice to think that I will be returning shortly, but we still have some great places to see and a lot of games to do.... God Bless and y'all have a great week ahead of you!