Miller Park may be my “home ballpark,” but Great American Ballpark is currently the closest Major League Baseball stadium, and probably the one I have been to the most after Miller Park. Like Miller Park, it’s also special to me for several reasons. Hubby and I went to a lot of baseball games when we …
We are halfway through the Major League Soccer Stadium TourĀ (until expansion teams join in 2020), so here’s a quick recap of the teams and the stadiums we have seen on the MLS Stadium Tour thus far, along with the other teams we saw through the years. Official MLS Stadium Tour Visits Seattle Sounders: The March …
When the time came to plan the 6th Annual Stadium Tour, we once again faced a timing challenge. Memorial Day Weekend was no longer feasible because Sis was pregnant and due the first week of June! We knew that we would have limited availability because Sis and BIL were saving their vacation for family leave …
To read more about how the stadium came to be, read this background post. I mentioned that I was pregnant during Stadium Tour #4, and my son was born in Fall 2015. So, for Stadium Tour #5, we had to add the new logistics of accommodating a baby and his need to eat. I’m going …
When we started the stadium tour, we joked that Houston was likely going to be one of the last places we went. No offense to Houston, but it’s not exactly a top vacation destination. Yet, Houston has one very important attribute that made it incredibly attractive for four Midwesterners – it’s warm. 2015 was an …
The 2019 Major League Soccer schedule is going to be announced shortly, which means that planning for the 8th Annual Stadium Tour is underway! I’ve talked about the history of the stadium tour before (or read this for an overview of where we’ve been), but I don’t think I’ve ever really talked about my Sis …
This year’s stadium tour took us to Orlando to see Orlando City SC play the Houston Dynamo. We made a long vacation out of the stadium tour, starting in Tampa for the baseball game, then spending the week at the Orlando theme parks, and ending with the Orlando City game. For the first time, we …
Stadium Tour #2 was a bit more local – Kansas City. Hubby and I flew, but Sis and BIL drove. They had both been to games in Kansas City before, but never to Sporting Park (or Children’s Mercy Park as it is now known), and we were looking forward to the atmosphere of a Sporting …
The next stop on our first stadium tour was to head south to see the Portland Timbers. We had heard the fan culture in Portland was just as passionate as Seattle, so we were eager to compare. In fact, we had to buy tickets the day they came out because they sell out games so …
To learn more about how the MLS Stadium Tour came to be, read more here. Our first stadium tour was a two-fer for soccer: Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers. We figured if we were spending the money on plane tickets to the Pacific Northwest, we may as well get our money’s worth! We tried to …