Baseball Temple Trip 2009

Richard and I fell in love with Baseball a couple of years ago, when we decided to catch a game at Camden Yards-Home of the Baltimore Orioles! Ever since then, we've wanted to see a game in every stadium...and add a temple in the area to the trip. While visiting with our friends down the street last year-we found that they had the same interest-which led to our first Baseball Temple Trip last month. The trip took us to the cities of San Diego-Home to the Padres, Anaheim-Home to the Angels, and Los Angeles-Home of the Dodgers. We visited LDS Temples in San Diego, Newport and Los Angeles. In between these attractions, we visited a place in San Diego with the best seafood around~stopped and grave yard hunted for my mother's grave in El Cajon Cemetery, a place I haven't been to since I was 4 years old~we had a blast at Universal Studios~dropped by West Coast Choppers in Long Beach~walked the stores at Coronodo Island~Watched the firworks from Disneyland every night from our Hotel and still never had the desire to go inside the gate~shopped the stores at the Garden Walk~and finally, walked the Hollywood Walk of Fame! We brought luck to the home teams and a curse upon the stars! We watched a fireworks tribute to the late great Michael Jackson at Dodger Stadium and grew silent at the magnificent size of the inside of the Los Angeles Temple! We ate Hot Dogs and Garlic Fries and sang at the seventh-inning stretch~and we stood in silence with 51,000 fans for Ed McMahon, Farrah Fawcett and Michael Jackson. It was amazing and memorable.