Baseball, slots, and flat tires

Lots of things to keep one busy in Harrisburg. Thursday night, after dinner, we took a stroll to City Island, down a few blocks from the hotel and across the steel Walnut Street bridge, closed to vehicular traffic since 1972. A sign announced a ballgame tonight! Harrisburg has an AA team affiliated with the Washington Nationals called, appropriately enough, the Senators. So we bought a reserved seat for $8 and went on to "root, root, root for the home team". But, like their namesake senators, they just couldn't get it together. We left after the 7th inning stretch with the score at 5-1, in favor of the Binghamtown Mets, affiliated with...well, you can figure it out.
And then there's the car. After getting some articles from our car, the valet staff discovered that one of my tires was almost flat. By the time they reached me, it was completely flat. So the valet (Russ) and I (and another employee who was on his day off but passing by) took off the spare and changed the tire - the first time I've had to do that with the Honda in nearly 8 years. Then off to Firestone to get it fixed. Nope, can't fix it, slow leak, need a brand new one. Oh well, maybe I'll get to the Capitol tomorrow. But while they were fixing, I took a nice walk in the sunshine along the Susquehanna, learning the history of the town through roadside markers (it's their "Susquecentennial" - that's what they're calling it - 150 years since John Harris established the town) and getting some exercise - a little more than a mile round trip from Firestone.
And a side note to our travel: on the way to Harrisburg along I-78, we stopped for a brief sojourn in Bethlehem, PA, and the new Sands casino, built to resemble an old steel plant. We dropped their welcome package pretty quickly, even though it was penny slots, but I managed to make back my own investment (plus $15) with the "Hee-Haw" slots. Of course, then I spent the winnings on lunch at the Irish pub. Oh well, at least it's closer than Atlantic City.