Lola goes to Fenway Park

Alright, so we haven't hit the road just yet, but we are doing some pretty awesome things before we go.  On Thursday I took Lola to Fenway Park  for a walkabout and got some really great pictures.  She sometimes surprises me at how well behaved she can be!  The only way it could have gone better is if we had gotten to go into the park.  THAT would have been amazing.  Here are some of the photo highlights of our trip:

Lola and her Pirate friends! 

These are some Freedom Trail tour guides that were quite taken with Lola at the Boston Common on our way to Fenway Park.

Lola picks up tickets for the game.



This is my favorite picture of the Fenway photo shoot!  We just started working on this trick, called the Up-Stay, a couple weeks ago.  I was so excited when she actually did it for this picture!  I tried to get her to do it a few other times during the shoot, but this was the only one where she stayed in the standing position.

Lola sits with Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr, Johnny Pesky, and Dom DiMaggio, Teammates for life.

This statue was unveilled one year ago as a tribute to the lasting friendship of the players.  The plaque, in part, reads:

"They came to Boston from the West Coast -- 2B Bobby Doerr from Los Angeles Calif. in 1937; LF Ted Williams from San Diego, Calif. in 1939; CF Dominic DiMaggio from San Francisco in 1940; and SS Johnny Pesky from Portland, Ore. in 1942.

They were Red Sox teammates for seven seasons, but best friends for a lifetime. In total, they played for the Red Sox for 52 seasons and have over 150 years of service with the Red Sox organization.
They served their country in World War II, a total of 11 years.
They led the Red Sox to a record of 653 wins vs. 424 losses for a .606 pct. during their time together."--Boston.com

Lola and I also came from the West Coast.  Just saying.  : )

Lola and Ted Williams

This statue commemorates Ted Williams and the work he did to support the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and The Jimmy Fund, the official charity of the Boston Red Sox.  I wanted to get her doing another up-stay for this shot, but she decided to jump all the way up both times.  Sometimes you just can't argue with the model!

Waiting for her Fenway Frank

This is as far inside of Fenway as Lola and I got.  Although they were so impressed with her I probably could have tried to get her in farther!  For this shot I would have loved to have her on top of the picnic table, but I didn't want to press my luck. 

A great place to be.

I was really hoping that the Red Sox Logo on the back of her shirt would have shown up better in this picture.  Even so, I love this picture. 

Looking out on Red Sox Nation

Lola and I stopped an rested for quite some time on these steps.  She was exhausted from all of her hard work.  The door behind her is the entrance to the Boston American League Baseball Office.  At one point while Lola was laying down, The door opened and hit her in the bum.  It  didn't even occur to me that the door would open out, or at all for that matter.  A group of attractive baseball men exited, but I couldn't see anyone I recognized.  The man who hit Lola with the door kept looking back at her and I hoped he would come talk to us, but he had work to do.  *sigh*

Taking it all in

The passers-by were very amused by Lola's ability to sit and stay in the middle of the sidewalk when people were walking all around her.  I was pretty impressed too.  She did an amazing job-no leash for most of the pictures!  Never once even got up to walk around when she wasn't supposed to.  Lola definitely made a lot of people smile that day.  : )

Joyful over the broken curse

The pictures behind us are shots taken from the 2004 World Series, when the Red Sox broke the curse.  It was an amazing day, even if I was 3,000 miles away when it happened and Lola wasn't even born yet!  I am always caught off guard when someone volunteers to take a picture so that I can be in it.  Lola obviously has it down and came up with a great pose.  We really did have a great time at Fenway, even if we didn't go inside.  Perhaps next time . . .

~Crystal