Having gotten the car up and running, we left West Virginia this morning to head to Ohio.  My first stop was the Akron airport, where I dropped of Stephanie and the kids.  They flew to Massachusetts to be with Stephanie’s parents.  Stephanie is going to her high school reunion in Troy, NY, this weekend.  I then drove to Columbus, where I checked into my luxury suite at the Motel 6.

This evening I went to a minor league baseball game.  I always try to visit minor league teams when I am in a new area, so I headed out to see the Columbus Clippers, the AAA farm team of the New York Yankees.  An added bonus to seeing them play was the fact that their opponents were the Ottawa Lynx, the farm club of the Baltimore Orioles.  I love keeping a score card, and that is always easier to do when I go to these games alone.  Although the Clippers won (as an Orioles fan I was rooting for Ottawa), it was an exciting game.  It was tied until the 9th inning, when Ottawa got a go ahead run.  The Clippers came back to win it with a two run double in the bottom of the ninth.  It ended with a close play at the plate.  Although my team lost, I will take an exciting loss like that any day over a boring win (except in the playoffs).