Life is short and Fridays are our favorite days, so Rachel and I try to experience something that relates (sometimes very remotely) to the design or staging industry by taking a field trip out of the office.  Like the time we went to the Cleveland Museum of Art and Design to enjoy the Monet exhibit.  We called that trip “Monet and Mansions” since we took the Fairmont Blvd. route to comment on all the home designs of the rich and famous. 

 This last Friday we went to see Hudson Girl’s Softball in the state finals.  We drove to Ashland, Ohio and enjoyed the scenery of a town reminiscent of Mayberry.  We critiqued the design of the ballfield.  It had fabulous seating - very abundant for a community park’s ballfield in such a small town.  They host the state finals every year, so I guess the City of Ashland was inspired by the Field of Dreams movie and “built it so they would come.”  It’s a beautiful stadium, has a press tent, a trainer table, t-shirt vendors, food vendors, a ball retriever to collect foul balls, a professional announcer, etc.  Rachel and I tried the popcorn and hotdogs which did not disappoint.

 This week we are diverting from Field Trip Friday to go to the Cleveland Indians day game on Thursday.  We have great seats and can’t wait to see our team, especially Grady.  Who doesn’t love that good looking guy.  And he can really play baseball too.  We couldn’t have designed him any better.

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