Fenway Park was the first Major League park Carlos Pena visited.

After Sunday's game, Peña talked about returning to Boston, where his family lives and where he spent a large part of his youth.

OAKLAND, Calif. -- Boston is where I grew up. We moved there when I was 14 years old, and went to college there for two years, so it's a really special place to me.

On our trip there this week, there are going to be so many friends and family members there at the games and so many people I'm looking forward to seeing.

Most importantly, I'm looking forward to seeing my family. My mom, my brother Omar, my father, my sister Femeris. Unfortunately, my brother Pedro is in school at Old Dominion, so I won't be seeing him, but I'll catch up with him on the phone.

AUDIO: Carlos remembers going to Fenway Park

One thing that I'm really excited about is Fenway Park. It's going to be so special. The first Major League baseball game I went to was Fenway Park.

That place has such great smells. You can smell the popcorn, the hot dogs. It's so small that you can get that. It's unbelievable baseball atmosphere.

So when I step on to that field and I smell those things that I smelled when I was just a fan, wow, it's going to be amazing.

AUDIO: Carlos talks about what makes Fenway so special

Another thing that will be great is hopefully seeing some of my college buddies. Northeastern is right downtown, right next to Fenway. We had an awesome team there. This atmosphere we have here in Oakland reminds me a lot of my college team, because we were so tight. It's going to be cool to see them all.

I'm going to try to get to my house - it's only 35 minutes from the stadium - but I don't know if I'll have time, with my workouts and games, batting practice. I don't know if I'll be able to get there.

It's going to be hard to fit everything in. But at the very least, I'll enjoy myself just being there, it'll be such a good feeling just to be in Boston.

Hopefully, I'll be able to get together with my family members tomorrow (Monday) and then the games Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, I'll be able to just play.

But I doubt it. I'm going to be all over the place. But it should be interesting and fun.

Carlos Peña's diary appears as told to Kent Schacht, who is an editorial producer for MLB.com. This story was not subject to approval by Major League Baseball or its clubs.