Photo Essay #11: Good Sunday Guidelines

Step 1: Be awoken with offer of free tickets to ballgame.

Step 2: Agree to accept tickets. Bike to ballgame. Biking to the ballgame makes one feel superior to the chumps driving or metroing. Exercise and it's faster.

Step 3: Roll in during the 4th inning.


Step 4: Snacks. Washing shorts before taking the picture would be preferable, or maybe wearing clothing that hasn't been worn to work for last two weeks.

Step 5: Ooh! The Cracker Jack Prize!

Step 6: Beware, because the Cracker Jack prizes suck now.

Step 7: Look! It's DC's version of Milwaukee's sausage race, only with dead presidents! Things we learn: Teddy Roosevelt is a lout, a drunkard, and a skirt-chaser. George Washington pulls it out in the end. Abe Lincoln survives.


Step 8: Woot! Home team rallies to win. Kid in front of us cheers in the wrong direction, solemnly.


Step 9: What to do now? Philadelphia Water Ice, that's what. One mango, one pineapple, please.


Step 10: Mmm.


Step 11: Barbecue. Natch.


Step 12: Hot dog + ketchup + mustard + EXTREME GOLDFISH.


Step 13: Good day.