Our friend Greg flew with us to Arizona. My brother in law Charlie was going to meet us there later that night.
Greg's friend was at the airport heading to AZ. I had a lot of these moments just sitting there...listening to football talk.
On the plane!
You can see the stadium
Closer look
That looks so pretty to me
This is titled - Pistachio Problems
1/30
Of course when we get there it was rainy. I swear it was all of the 12's there, we all brought the crap weather.
We stopped at a NFL fan fest in Scottsdale. We were only there for about 15 minutes before we were too cold and wanted to get out of the rain. It was in the parking lot of Macy's so we went and bought some Seahawks gear.
Drove past ASU for Kaiya. We actually ate at Chik Fil-A there. My first time.
I wonder if some people in AZ have no clothes for the rain? I thought it was funny how many people I saw with flip flops and shorts still.
We paid way too much money to go to this NFL experience. There was a million people and the lines were long. It was like a football Disneyland or something. We walked around for about 20 minutes and decided to pull the plug. The AFC championship trophy had zero line, Patriots fans could walk right up and take a picture. To the contrary, the NFC championship trophy (for the Seahawks) had over an hour wait, just to get up there and take a picture.
The bad weather wasn't stopping all the fans from hanging out and experiencing all the Super Bowl activities.
1/31
Cirdan and the guys went and saw a movie while I went to my friend Eric's daughters birthday party. It is always good to see him and his family. Wish we lived closer!
1st we had to stop at In-N-Out for lunch
Down at the stadium was were people were hanging out. There is restaurants and they had live music. It was packed with people.
My cousin Darek was in town staying with Staci's family. It was good to see them! Always funny to me when I don't see someone in Washington ever but it takes us both going to a different state to actually hang out.
The Patriots fan on the left side bought Superbowl tickets online for his birthday. When he got into town he was told there was no tickets for him after all. He was so depressed. That happened to a lot of fans this year. The demand was so high that the brokers lost a lot of money and the tickets that they sold to people they never received.
The energy was amazing
2/1/15
We were all nervous. Morning of the big game!
Cirdan and Charlie smiling - Greg not
Cirdan and Charlie not smiling - Greg Smiling - What the heck?!
We rode in a taxi to the stadium - figuring that it would be easier to get out after the game.
Greg knew he was going to Arizona to just watch the game somewhere. Charlie had hope that he would get there and find some good price ticket. There was so many people looking for tickets that he didn't find one. A couple hours before the game (we had already went in) Charlie said that he saw a scalper sell 2 tickets to some guy at $15,000 each. The guy...right there on the side of the street pulled out $30,000. Nuts.
We made it into the stadium! After a ton of security.
Outside the stadium there was a bunch of activities going on.
Cheerleaders signing autographs and taking pictures
There was these tables below set up. They were handing out blank postcards (with a picture of the stadium). We sent one home to the kids and one to my parents. They mailed them for free. We actually ended up getting home and being home about a week or longer before we even got them in the mail. :)
There was cops everywhere. Security. Bomb squad.
NFL Network televising
They were filming the crowd of people
A band
Once we got into the stadium it was electric.
We sat in the nosebleeds seats. By the time we walked up the stairs I was out of breath and my legs hurt. Ha ha
I was surprised how many Cardinal fans were there wearing their jerseys. Had to sit behind one of them.
An airplane with a 12 flag flying around the stadium
Some interesting fans - Patriots - Ick
The guys in front of us celebrating
I was starting to get really nervous
We had lights at our chairs for halftime
How come I have more half time pictures of Katy Perry than the game? It was the best show! I definitely want to go see one of her concerts now!
Not shown is the worst play in Seahawks history. Great game
one of the best Superbowls, ever.
Seahawks fans helping a drunk Patriot fan. Holding him up. He couldn't even walk.
We had to stand and wait for a Taxi for about an hour. Every time a Patriot fan would walk past they had to say something to us sad 12's.
When we got home the guys congregated and ate some ice cream. They had to talk about the game. Over and over and over.
2/2/15
I had to get away from the guys and took a long walk around and around and around the neighborhood. It was a beautiful morning and just what I needed.
There was a lot of older people out and about. I saw these 2 men walking and thought to myself....I want this life when I am older!
We stayed in Cirdan's tax guys house. He let us stay there for free. It was so nice!
There was lemons and oranges and grapefruit.
A golfcourse in the backyard
2/3
When we drove to the airport the stadium was just mocking us. I swear.
Heading home
Picture of the interior of our plane, being held together, by, ummm...tape?!?
Jett loves these suckers with scorpions
Goodbye AZ
