Opening Day

It's Opening Day for the Red Sox - my yearly birthday present from Bud Selig. Hannah was very excited to wear her Red Sox shirt today (and I am excited that it still fits!) and let me watch two whole innings before the game was relegated to my laptop so she could watch Elmo. If the Sox would just draft Super Grover we would be all set. But she keeps walking over to check on the game and she loves clapping for the players just as much as she did last year.


Opening Day last year was our last morning in Kunming. The Red Sox opened on Sunday night last year, which was Monday morning in China. We ate breakfast, got all of our stuff packed up, and watched the first few innings in our hotel room. It was Hannah's first glimpse at baseball (and one of her first at television - it was clear that she had never seen tv before she joined us a few days earlier) and she was hooked. We watched it on the ESPN Asia feed - the pregame was the direct feed from the US in English, but the game itself was broadcast by ESPN Asia in Japanese? Chinese? Korean? We have no idea.... But we do know that "back to back home runs" and "Pesky's Pole" are not phrases that get translated. :)