Ryan Restivo

I’m not going to lie: 2009 was a great year. However, it’s almost over so I’d like to recap it. What better way than through blog posts and photos?

Unfortunately, I’m going to start to try to tell stories about how well the year went fully knowing that my awesome girlfriend Jenna is probably way better at telling every single story than I am.

September So on 9/8/08 I took Jenna’s brother Keith to a baseball game with me. Little did I know… I’d meet Zack Hample out there with Keith. So we got to go see Zack at work and we were able to grab a few baseballs ourselves. We also got to see Zack pull off the glove trick which I swear took under 30 seconds. I snapped three shots not because I could but because that was as many as I was going to get.

Oh yeah and Zack got the lineup card… Also covered at Zack’s site and here on my site.

Two days later, I went with Adam and Chris, and I got 7 baseballs and Adam caught one. Chris met up with us after batting practice. I still am short a Citi Field baseball but I’m supposedly not missing much.

Later in the month Jenna and I made a fun trip, up to the American Museum of Natural History. We went to the Planetarium show, Jenna’s favorite, as well as saw all the dinosaur exhibits they had. It’s a nice little museum but we underestimated the fact that since it was a school off day, there would be so many kids roaming and screaming around. Plus the place is big, it’s a long walk around the exhibits.

October

October was time for a lot of postseason baseball. This meant I got a little busy at work. I got to go to Yankee Stadium for the first time to record some entertaining video on a flip cam. The Yankees opened up the stadium for the fans to watch game three, here’s some video. I learned two things: flip cams work really well, I thought they would be bad with the lighting and audio (a very small mic) but they were able to capture everything I shot very well. I also learned how nice the seats are at the new Yankee Stadium. I made a mission of it to get to the row behind the dugout and I sat in the row. It’s a nice view and I know I won’t be paying for it anytime soon.

However the baseball season would soon end, in November. With the baseball season over, I can show these photos of my baseball collection so far. Click to enlarge the images.

Also during October, we went back up to Marist for homecoming. That let us have these funny photos as we walked around Marist. I got to watch some football with our friends, we went around to talk to Jenna’s friends still in the band. I’m sure if I understood this story, I’d be laughing too. It was good for us to see most of her suitemates from senior year and we got to see the usual team of Danny, Chris & Erin. Before the game, I made a point of it that we had to go to the Everready Diner so I could get some pancakes and their strawberry butter. In a complete surprise move, we went to the Olive Garden for dinner. Then it was back home, driving home was easier than finding a place to stay, especially there.

Finally this funny photo to wrap up October. I have no idea when it was taken but it is a funny photo.