The stated purpose of our trip was to see the baseball game. Karen and Mom plotted unsuccessfully to miss the game for shopping or something.

Notice the SF jacket - When packing to go to San Francisco, only one thing is required: An American Express card. The weather was either freezing, great, or hot. I suggest packing no clothes, buy them as needed corner to corner depending on the current temperature.

Pacific Bell Park. This is the first year of the stadiums use. Accessible from the downtown district, the park is next to the bay - home run balls can splash into the bay (So far, 5 have- all by Barry Bonds).

We didn't do any of the tours the park has, to many other things to do first - according to Karen: "Shopping"

On our 'Ball Park Meter', Pac-Bell is rates fairly well. The wait in line for the garlic-fries was over 2 innings long, but otherwise it is a comfortable park. Its biggest problem is the seating angle -we noticed more then other parks the back of the heads of the people in the next row - in Karen's case she saw only the back of who could have been a double for Andre-The-Giant.

Sky divers dropped in before the game, one landed directly on home plate. I thought it have been more impressive for him to have landed such that he was 'caught' by the giant glove - probably something about insuring a sky diver flying into a steal statue prevented that from happening.

The pitchers were Hernández for the Giants against Maddux for the Braves. A pitching duel, the fate of the game came down to a single pitch from Maddux that the Giants pounded for a two-run homer. 0-2 final score.