We started our day at the Viera Hampton Inn. As we remarked more than once during the day; free Internet, free breakfast, and baseball. It is hard to imagine a better combination.
Before the game we were able to watch Chien-Ming Wang, a Nationals pitcher from Taiwan, who had crowds of Taiwanese press attending taking pictures and notes, and then the Nationals batting practice. While watching batting practice I also compared reading my Kindle with reading my newly purchased Motorola Xoom in the bright sun, reconfirming that the Kindle is much better than a tablet under those circumstances. And yes, Miriam, I recognize that only a nerd would do both of those things at once.
The Nationals played, and lost, to an Atlanta split squad. However, we had still another a great afternoon in warm, generally sunny Viera.
Two minor observations from the day:
* It is really, really (REALLY) great not to hear “O” shouted during the National Anthem. Of course, today the National Anthem was played by a trumpet player so shouting anything during it was not so easy
* Only in Florida, at least more often than in Washington, there was a slight delay in the middle of the game, caused by a swarm of bees that flew across the outfield moving all the outfielders into the infield and sending the right field crowd running for a brief period of time