Minute Maid Ball Park (Houston, Texas)

One of our traveling goals is to visit all the Major League baseball parks, and during baseball season, so we can enjoy a game while we’re at it! Even better would be if either San Francisco or Oakland were playing at each of the ballparks we visited, but that might be asking for too much. So yesterday we caught a game at the Minute Maid ball park in Houston, Texas, between the Astros and the Cincinnati Reds. (Houston is only about 70 miles from where we are staying in Livingston, making it an easy drive there and back.) Since neither San Francisco nor Oakland was playing, we decided we would root for the home team. But, it didn’t help – the Reds won, 4-2. But it was a beautiful day to be sitting outside watching a baseball game. Temperature was in the 70’s, nice breeze, seats in the shade. The day before there were torrential rains in Houston, 7.5 inches in 24 hours! You wouldn’t have known Sunday, what a difference a day can make! This year (2009) marks the Astros 10th Season in Minute Maid Park, located in the heart of downtown Houston. You can see some of the surrounding high rise buildings in the attached pictures.

Today wraps up our stay in Livingston and in Texas this time around. Tomorrow we head out for Arkansas: A couple of days in Hot Springs; a couple of days visiting friends in Conway; then about a week visiting family in Fort Smith. We enjoyed our hiatus in Livingston, it’s a great place to stop and collect your bearings, but it’s time to get rolling again!