One of the reasons that Margaret and I were so happy for DC to get baseball is because the Nationals are a National League team. And with our Cubbies also being a National League team, that means we get to see the Cubbies play a few games pretty close to our home.

I say pretty close because travel time home from the games this weekend was about 90 minutes door to door. Another 45 minutes and I could have seen a game in Philadelphia. Another 90 minutes and I could see a game in Pittsburgh!

Fearing traffic, we took Metro both days. Getting there wasn’t a problem and it is only a 7 minute walk from the station to the stadium. Getting home seemed to take forever. Ignoring that fact that a majority of the 30,000 people at the game were taking Metro home, it still took a while. We had to change trains at Metro center on Friday and that took 10 minutes to wait for a Red line train. On Saturday we happened to be in Virginia and decided to take Metro from there (a straight shot on the Orange line). It still took 90 minutes to get home…

If you weren’t watching Saturday night’s game, there was a 2 hour rain delay that we sat through. While RFK may not be much of a stadium to look at, it is big and was plenty roomy enough to keep the entire crowd dry during the delay.

Not getting home until 2AM on Sunday morning, we decided to skip the Sunday game. It was just too much for us to try and do. So we watched them play on TV, which was good enough for the two of us.

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