Showing posts with label USA in general. Show all posts
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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Baseball

Today, I watched the Milwaukee Brewers play the St. Louis Cardinals at Miller Park. The stadium was built in 2001,  and has a roof that can be opened and closed depending on the weather.
There were more than 40 000 spectators watching the game. It was an interesting cultural experience, not because of the baseball game, but because of the spectator culture. People were sitting on the parking lot outside, drinking beer, and kept on drinking and throwing peanuts inside. It seemed like no one paid attention to the game, but they were only there because of the loud music and because it was allowed to drink there.
This was the second of three games that they are going to play against the Cardinals this weekend. Tomorrow the games will continue, and it looks bad for the Brewers.

Water in the US

The water here in Milwaukee is far better than it was in NY, DC, Atlanta and all of the cities I've been to in the States so far. I would say it is almost the same as the water in Norway. Probably because Milwaukee has similar cold and rainy climate as Norway, but Norway has still by far more rain than any place I have been so far.
On almost all public places in America, there are water fountains that anyone can use. Milwaukee is almost as south as Italy on the map, so they have warm summers, where these probably will be needed.