 We were lucky enough on this trip to get not one but two baseball-basketball double headers. Both were pretty similar in that one game was great and engaging and the other was… not. But we still had fun at all of the games and we were lucky that the scheduling worked out and allowed us to do it twice. Since the spring training game was a bit of a yawn, that means the basketball game that night, between the Suns and the Clippers, was exceptionally enticing. I would say that it is probably one of my favorite NBA games we’ve been to, and it resulted in us going back on Sunday!
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 I’ve made a few road trips between major cities with little to no concerns, so I felt unprepared for the challenge that was Houston to Dallas. It started out with some not great weather- the overcast skies from the Astros tour quickly turned to rain, which made visibility limited. The worst part, however, was that it was a two lane interstate for most of the drive, and based on the number of cars making the trip, it might warrant 4 lanes. Maybe we just caught it on a bad day, but it was white knuckle rush hour type traffic the whole three and a half hour drive. Another weird note about the drive is that the exits are quite a bit different than Montana. In Montana, when an exit sign says it has something, it is literally right off of the exit. There, you could potentially drive a mile or so (with several turns and twists) to find the gas station/Starbucks you’re looking for.
We made it to Dallas safe and sound though and right on time for making it to the Texas Rangers stadium for the second tour I had planned. Unfortunately, however, Google maps didn’t like Dallas too much, so we got lost and didn’t make it in time. The nice part about Dallas vs Houston is that the traffic is much more manageable because they have so many different interstate type routes, many of which have been built up, so the roads overlap slightly and can result in your phone’s GPS getting pretty confused on your whereabouts. I was bummed about missing the tour, but it’s an excuse to go back and we had a game that night that I was excited for- Dallas Mavericks vs Memphis Grizz.  The last game of our Denver sports weekend was a matchup of the Rockets and Nuggets. We'd seen the Nuggets play just a year before in LA against the Clippers, but this was already a fairly different team. The biggest name that was playing for them that game was probably Timofey Mozgov, so I was a lot more excited to see what James Harden and Dwight Howard had to show. But this Nuggets team played hard (at least on this night) and surprised us by coming away with the win and throwing in a few SportsCenter top 10 plays for good measure.
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