This past Sunday, I went to my very first Vikings game! 🙂 My friend Stacy and her husband had 2 extra tickets and generously offered to let us come along. Tim has been to a bunch of games, so it wasn’t a big deal for him, but this was my first time even inside the metrodome. I wasn’t sure what to expect.
And I must say, I had a fantastic time.
It was loud, yes. But not as loud as I expected. (And Yes, I brought ear plugs. Pretty purple ones even!) It was rowdy, yes. But, again, not as rowdy as I expected. It was way up in the bleachers, yes. But the field was much larger than I expected, so it was easy to follow what was going on. And I’ve been married long enough to actually understand the game now. Ever since we started dating, Tim has done a wonderful job of slowly (I’m sure painstakingly) explaining my gazillion questions about what’s going on, so now I pretty much get it. Once in a while I’ll be totally clueless on what just happened, but I can hold my own pretty well. 🙂
I will admit there was a moment that I questioned my decision to go. It was as we were filing in at the very beginning at that exact moment when we were literally pressed up on every side against strangers… Everyone was at a stand-still trying to go both ways (unsuccessfully) and it seemed like I would never get free. It was a bit scary actually. But it soon loosened up and there weren’t any more scary crowd moments after that.
And as a side note, I tried to crop out my double chin in the picture above, haha! But it made my face ridiculously small… 🙂 So I guess you all will just have to love me–double chin and all! 😉
Come on, you are cute chin and all. No one probably notices it except you.
I know just what you mean about the panic when you are packed into a crowd. I wonder if everyone feels that way. Looks like you are way, way, way up there, considering the back wall is one row back! When we went to Canada for quizzing, we went to a Canadian football game and were way up, too. But, like you said, it was still easy enough to see.
Glad you had a good time with Stacy and the guys. Tim looks like he is totally loving it!
I’m glad you had fun!
That trapped moment in the crowd? Right when I would have had a full-on panic attack, hyperventilated, and started crying. 🙂
I love the older guy behind you in the first picture. Looks like he’s happy as can be.
Kylene, I thought of you and said to myself, “Wow! I’m not even afraid of crowds and I’m about to freak out–how do other people deal with this?” 🙂