Cincinnati Reds Fireworks Friday
After Friday evening baseball games, the Cincinnati Reds have what they call Fireworks Friday and we happened to be in Cincinnati on a Friday night!
Sheila and I had actually talked about getting tickets to this game but, while we were planning this trip many months in advance, Sheila reminded me that we had no idea what the weather would be like. I had no desire to sit in the rain so we scrapped that possible activity for our visit.
It just so happens that a rather severe thunderstorm had rolled through about an hour before game time. We probably would have been caught in this thunderstorm and gotten completely soaked had we purchased tickets to this game. Then our seats at the ball park would have been wet too Even though the temperature was in the 90s, being completely drenched before the game would not have been all that pleasant especially since I probably would have had a small camera with me as I always do.
Putting aside the thunderstorm, it is a bummer that we didn't have tickets to this game. First, I later found out that neither Lukey nor Kenzie had ever been to a professional baseball game. Attending any big league game in person, regardless of the sport, is very different than watching on television so something every kid should experience at least once.
Another reason it is too bad we skipped this game is that the Reds won the game with a score of 9-1. We actually listened to the game in our room at the hotel and watched some of the game while we had dinner in the hotel restaurant. Also, the tickets I had planned to purchase were great seats which would have made the game even better.
Even as a kid growing up on Long Island, I was a Cincinnati Reds fan (and a Mets fan). Then my first Air Force duty station was in Dayton so this just cemented my strong feelings for the Reds. I often attended games for free and was always a big part of the Opening Day festivities. Being back in Cincinnati brought back a lot of really nice memories.
So, here we were in Cincinnati on a Fireworks Friday night and our hotel was looking down on The Great American Ballpark and the Ohio River toward Kentucky. Before the game started, we watched a strong thunderstorm with high winds pass through the area. It was interesting watching this storm from a high floor which provided us with a very different point of view that we usually have for a storm. Fortunately, the wind dried off our windows fairly quickly and then I captured a few photos from our room looking down toward the river and the ball park...
We had recorded video of this fireworks show too but, somehow, I managed to screw up the focus so the whole long video is out of focus. I remember that I had trouble focusing and that was likely due to the tinted double-pane windows. When we got home and I moved the video to my desktop computer, it was really disappointing to find that the whole video is out of focus. So, I have no video to show. The photo above is probably a more impressive sight anyway!
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