26 | October | 2009 | Mid-Michigan Dining

DeMartin Stadium

26 10 2009

248 Jenison Field House
East Lansing, MI 48824
(517) 353-8635
Website

It’s wierd. I’ve been to DeMartin Stadium, but I’ve never blogged about it. I was thinking that Sunday as I was standing there watching the MSU women take on the Minnesota Golden Golphers. I don’t have a lot of experience with college soccer stadiums or soccer in general, but DeMartin seems like a nice place to play.

DeMartin Stadium sits behind Jenison Field on Michigan State University. It’s part of the athletic complex that makes up Old College Field along with the softball and baseball diamonds. DeMartin Stadium is barely a year old. Before the 2008 season, a number of changes took place to the soccer field including the orientation and the addition of seating bringing the capacity to 2500.

The closest parking lot to the field is at Jenison and on game days, parking can be at a premium. People were parking everywhere. In spaces, on the grass, wherever they could find a spot to put their cars. The only bad thing about Old College Field is the parking, but that seems to be the trend at all of MSU’s athletic facilities.

You enter Old College Field between the baseball and softball diamonds…that is, if you’re paying. You wouldn’t believe how many kids…and adults were sucking in their guts and squeezing through the fence that is meant to keep people out. I don’t know how much a soccer game costs, but it can’t be that much. Read the rest of this entry »

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Panera Bread – Okemos

26 10 2009

4738 Central Park Drive
Okemos, MI 48864
(517) 349-4425
Website
Menu

You’ll hear me say this a lot. I’m not a breakfast person. I don’t normally get out of bed earlier enough to eat breakfast. It’s one of the nice things about being a freelancer. I don’t work everyday. That’s also one of the bad things about it.

Anyway, in East Lansing. This time, very early in the morning. Work started at 6 AM on Sunday. Fortunately, I still had keys to my Lansing apartment, so I was not making the drive at four in the morning. That will happen a few times this fall/winter.

Our lunch break came around nine o’clock. Typically, I just go to McDonald’s for breakfast. I like the bacon, egg, and sausage biscuit. Add that to the fact that it’s cheap and quick. When J could meet me, we’d actually go to a good, sit down place, but now that J’s in Kalamazoo, I’m on my own and there’s not a lot of quick breakfast choices. There just aren’t many places that do a good breakfast sandwich.

So, I’m heading down Grand River towards my usual McDonald’s stop when I hear a commercial for Panera Bread’s breakfast. It sounds really good plus it will be something a little different. Since I’m already on Grand River I keep going to the Panera in Okemos.

The Okemos Panera Bread is on Central Park Drive in a small strip mall on the corner with Grand River Avenue. On a Sunday morning, it was the only place open, yet there were a lot of cars in the parking lot. Seems like I wasn’t the only one that had this idea. Read the rest of this entry »