Seahawks!
>> Thursday, January 24, 2013
One of the highlights of our trip to the US (besides celebrating Christmas with my family of course!) was celebrating Lars' birthday at our first ever professional (American) football game!
We got in the spirit and into Seattle early and wandered through the tailgating area. It's slightly un-American to have never tailgated before the age of 26, I must admit, but I feel like we covered all the bases--we peed in Porta Potties, made friends with people we didn't know, ran into distant relatives, got our faces painted, drank wine with a straw and everything else out of red keg cups, and avoided free food after eating half of a obscenely undercooked bratwurst.
The fun continued in the stadium where we walked up and down 100 flights of stairs to buy overpriced beers, Mike's lemonades and garlic fries that smelled way better than they tasted. We yelled and screamed and jumped up and down with the other 60,000 people dressed in Seahawks green and blue and tried to avoid the unstable, drunk frat boy in the row behind us. He only fell once and landed on the sweet old man sitting next to us, luckily.
We had a great view and the Hawks won! What more could we possibly have wanted?
