Football, Teeth, and Trains

Yesterday was an interesting day. Everything was going fairly normal until Chris texted me about a ticket to a football game. Apparently our friends (The Nicholes) had four tickets to the Washington Redskins vs. NY Giants game and they were only using three of them. Tyler had invited Chris, but being the nice husband that he is, he knew he should let me go instead. He had just returned from a week long trip to Vegas and Oregon. So, yeah, I got myself ready to go.

Grace came home from school with a tooth treasure box. She was so excited to have popped out her tooth at school. I helped her find our special tooth fairy pillow before I left.

Then it was off to the game. It didn't start until 8:30pm, but it takes a little over an hour on the metro with about a mile of a hike to get there. The plan was to meet up at the stadium. I made it there without any issues. It was so impressive to see the stadium. This was my first NFL game.

Fed Ex Field

I found our friends and we went inside. We actually had AMAZING seats on the lower level. We were in row 15 up from the field. It was so cool!! You could actually see the players and how huge they really are. It was crazy to see how fast they are too. When the ball is snapped they move so fast. It seemed so different than on tv.

Seeing as it was NY vs. Washington there were a lot of fans from both teams. I was rooting for NY even though I didn't really care. My teams are the Seahawks and Vikings. I was sitting next to a lady also rooting for the Giants. Made it fun for sure. 

A little up close time with Eli.

And my awkward selfie to prove I was there...

These games tend to go really late. Since it was a school night, and I knew it would probably take me at least an hour to get home, we left the game at the beginning of the fourth quarter. By then the Giants seemed to have the game nicely wrapped up, and it was already 11:10pm. So we walked very fast to the station where we waited for our train. And waited...and waited. They needed a silver train. I needed a silver or blue. Either way I needed to go a few stops and then transfer to an orange train to get me home. Let me just say...this was the worst trip home ever!! Feel free to skip the following long paragraph.

Eventually, after waiting probably 30 minutes, a blue train came. I said my goodbyes and decided to hop on. I took it to a station where the orange line connects and got off. At this point it's almost midnight and the train service is about to end for the night. Because of the game they are running some trains an extra hour. I am watching the arrival board, and all it is listing is 3 silver trains. So I go ask a metro worker about it. They tell me, "oh yeah, an orange will come soon." Ok. So I wait. Another 30 minutes or so go by. Only silver trains. Then on the loudspeaker the guy says, "everyone wanting an orange train, you need to get on this next silver and meet an orange in metro center." Ok. So we all scramble up to the arriving train. Guess what? It's packed. Like people's faces smashed into the windows packed. Thanks a lot metro man. By some miracle I saw a person decide to get off, so I jumped into his spot. Phew! I think I'm golden. I ride to the place they told us and get off. I go right up to the metro lady to ask when the orange will be coming. She looks at me like I'm crazy. "You need to get back on the silver", she says. I explain how I need orange. She's like, "there ain't no more oranges. Take the next (and last) silver and then maybe get a cab." Great. Stupid metro people. So I wait again. Finally this last train comes. I get on and ride as far as I can. Sure enough there are tons of other people waiting for an orange train that is not supposed to ever come. Most of those people had been on earlier silvers and have been waiting for over an hour. By this time I am starving, thirsty, super annoyed and really tired! It's after 1:30am. Eventually enough people bugged this metro man enough and they rerouted a train to come get us. Thankfully I did not have to get a taxi. I got to the station, ran to the car, and drove the couple miles home. It was now 2am.

I was so bugged!! I didn't even stay for the end of the game and it took me almost 3 hours to get home. So lame!! Then when I got home I noticed our trash was all scattered around in front of the house. I quickly picked up what I could and went inside. Chris had been watching out the window for me and said that about 90 seconds before I pulled up he saw a FOX going through the trash. Thanks honey for the heads up. I coulda been attacked. He was very sweet though and cooked me eggs and toast for a pre bed snack. What a crazy, crazy night. If I ever go to another game there...something else will have to be done. 

This morning came very fast. We awoke to Grace crying loudly. Oops! That darn tooth fairy spaced her duties. We told her that the she was probably just very busy last night and didn't get around to it. Hopefully tonight is the night. Hopefully we can stay awake long enough. :)

I did really enjoy the game. I wish Chris could have gone too. Maybe another time. Thank you to the Nicholes for letting me tag along!