Day 31

Not wanting this holiday to turn into one big sporting indulgence for myself (see I'm just so thoughtful) I had tagged today as one of the sporting days, to take in a day at the US Tennis Open and a night at the Shea Stadium to watch the NY Mets take on the Atlanta Braves in Major League Baseball...anyways that was the plan! We got the express bus with Tiff over to Manhattan (under the Hudson river via the Lincoln Tunnel) and walked to her work where she gave us the deal on how to get to Flushing, Queens. So we caught the subway to out there and again security was silly as we had to check in our backpack and then still had to get any other bags checked by security. Eventually we got into the massive Arthur Ashe stadium (too big for tennis in my humble opinion) and watched the end of a 1/4 upset in the women's where Jankovic beat Dementieva, scanning the draw I found a kiwi girl was playing in the junior comp, Sacha Jones, so we toddled over to watch her, surprisingly the Maori looking one was the eastern European and the eastern European looking one was the kiwi girl, but that only confused us for a game or two. We had just started watching Andy Murray's match and then the rain came, and came, and came...it just got a heavier too so after a couple of beverages I grumpily agreed to leave. We headed home and it rained all night, Tiff was blaming some hurricane down south for this strange summer weather. Still warmer than up north though.