We woke up early, and got an 8:27 AM start down to Baltimore, hitting little traffic along the way.  Once we got to the Pimlico area, we decided to try our luck with the local parking vendors.  This proved to be an interesting experience, as one of the guys jumped in the car, and directed us down a few one way streets, the wrong way, to the nearest lawn to park on.  Then, we were approached by a lady who actually owned this lawn, and requested that we paid her, or threatened to tow us.  After a bunch of arguing, we eventually gave the original guy $5, and the lady $25... we were just glad to be parked, and were ready for the festivities.

 The line to get in wasn't as long as usual.  Once in the infield, Alon's cousin Zack Schildhorn found us, and we journeyed through mayhem, walking over people, coolers, empty beer cans, etc. to find the area that Alon's fraternity brothers were parked at.  We were greeted by a bunch of the brothers, and were happy to finally be settled in.  After this... Neal and Alon walked around, placed some bets, and just experienced the craziness of the Preakness Stakes infield with 121,263 fans... a record.  Neal bumped into his friend Jordanna, who happened to be best friends with a girl Alon used to go to camp with, Dana.  It was quite a coincidence, and a lot of fun!

After the race, which was described above, we took a quick stop at Kennedy's Fried Chicken, before driving down to DC.  Our good friend Ajay, who we have known for a long time, greeted us at his medical school residence, in the GW area of town.  We went to a restaurant named Lauriol Plaza, the best Mexican restaurant in DC, according to Ajay.  We each had a straberry/lemon frozen "margarita swirl" and Alon bumped into, randomly, some friends from a long time ago [including Nina, who is a dedicated mlbraodtrip2007.com website reader!]. 

It was a tiring day, and we just took it easy the rest of the night.  We explored Georgetown and foggy bottom with Ajay, played some Wii at his friend's apartment, got dominos, and went to bed.  Neal fell asleep in about... 5 seconds.  See you tomorrow at RFK stadium!