Boston Strong~ The Red Sox are World Series Champs!!!

I'll admit it.  I'm not a huge baseball fan.  The game is a bit too slow for me.  I love Fenway Park but I've never loved watching baseball live.  I'm always afraid I'm going to get hit by a foul pitch.  This all changes though when the Red Sox are in the playoffs.

This year's Red Sox were so inspirational.  I teach my kids about teamwork and how important it is to work together as a team.  I'm all about Together Everyone Achieves More.  Really, could this year's Red Sox have been any more about TEAM?  I don't think so.  Every night a different person stepped up.  Players were in slumps but their teammates didn't give up on them and eventually they were able to come through with clutch hits and plays.  Simply awesome!

I loved how the Red Sox embodied the spirit of "Boston Strong."  They helped heal our city after the bombings.  Who can forget Big Papi's, "This is our #$#%^ city" statement?  I honestly believe that was heartfelt and genuine.  It was our city and the Red Sox helped us reclaim it.  They played their hearts out this year and overachieved in the experts' eyes.  So many times during the playoffs they could've given up but they wanted to win for our city.  They wanted to win so that our city had something to celebrate!  I never felt like they were being cheesy with the "Boston Strong" stuff.  I think they genuinely wanted to help the city and this is how they could do it.

JO was in the Fenway area Wednesday night, at our friend's apartment that looks over Fenway.  I wasn't able to join him but I loved living vicariously through him.

With this gorgeous sunset how could they lose?

After the last out I called my dad.  He was so excited...like a little kid.  We decided to go to the parade together on Saturday and I'm so glad we did.  I now have such a special memory with my dad that will last a lifetime.  We watched the parade from the Longfellow Bridge and while we were waiting snippets of what was going on along the parade route spread through the crowd.  The Duck Boats had beards!  Awesome!  Dropkick Murphys had their own boats!  Awesome!  Officer Horgan on a boat!  Very awesome!  But the story that really got to the crowd was the special ceremony at the Marathon finish line.  We pulled up video of it on our phones and I seriously started crying right there on the bridge.  Chills!

We had a blast watching the boats go by the bridge and waving at the players.

So to the 2013 Boston Red Sox- thanks for lifting the spirits of this city when we were crushed and for giving us something to join together and celebrate on an absolutely gorgeous fall day in November!  You embody everything it means to be a Bostonian!