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party time!Now Playing: DC 101
Man, yesterday was AWESOME! There's no doubt about it. I had the time of my life it was so great. I want to start at the beginning, but at the same time, I just wanna hit the highlights and talk about the game. But let's start yesterday morning...
I wake up, at 5:something, because I just couldn't sleep, I was too siced! I go to the bathroom, try to go back to sleep, but it keeps getting brighter and brighter, so at like 6:11, I turn on Elliot in the Morning, which was in "Best Of" mode, it'll be back Monday morning. It was quite funny remembering all those funny times. Then at 8:something, I have to go to the bathroom again, and this time, there is a green Magic 8 ball on the floor with a Post-It Note saying "Is it your birthday? (shake me)" on it. I give it a look over, and it's a Care-Bear Magic 8 ball, I know, it was green, so that meant it was Good Luck Bear, but it was still cute. Then I get hungry and go to the kitchen. First thing I notice was that the chair was against the wall, and it had bowls in it, then I finally look at the table and there's my cake, and two gift bags, and three cards all sitting on a Care-Bears table cloth. Grumpy was on it since it included all of them. It was great, I got some nice presents, as well. I got a new purse (yay!), a mug, a couple of feather pens, and a digital camera. It's not an expensive one, but it does the trick. Of course I took it to the game, but I also got an okay photo of the cake:
Then I come back up to my room with a bowl of cereal, and turn on the TV ("Best Of" gets kind of boring when you've already heard it.), and there's a Monk marathon on. So I'm just enjoying myself a lot. Then Mum calls and wishes me a "Happy Birthday", It's so great. Then at some point I shave and take a shower. I had just gotten almost dressed when she came home. We have lunch, and cake, which if you must get a cake from a supermarket, ask for "batter cream" icing. It's SO GOOD! Then my brother calls. I had just been dogging him out a few minutes before because he didn't send me a card, but it's all good. When 3:00 rolls around, I get ready.
We left at 4:00, the ride over is pretty uneventful until we get to the stadium, we got there pretty early, so it's a bunch of tailgaters and stuff. I wanted to walk around, and we were just sitting on these concrete dividers, when this guy calls us over. He asks what we're doing, and we say just looking around, and he invites us to their tailgate party. Awesome. And everyone there is so nice. We get to telling them that we're there celebrating my 21st birthday, and Andy (that's his name) was proud to have the honor of giving me my first legal beer. We hang there until about 6:30-6:45. It was just too great. Everyone was so nice. But while they were supposed to be grilling, Andy forgot the top of the grill. So they're all asking other people if they have extra grill tops. Finally, some woman had this instant-grill thing. I don't know, it was confusing. They take the top off of that and start grilling. The chicken was fabulous, but the kabobs, OMG, SPECTACULAR!! I had never had them before, and they said they marinated them in a Cajun sauce. Once the evening started winding down, we thanked them and made our way into the stadium.
Getting through security is pretty easy, being that we didn't have anything dangerous, just a water bottle that my mum had to have, but it was a pretty cool night yesterday, so she was good to go. Now is the fun part, not to say tailgating wasn't. We go down to the first level of the field to take photos, which so happened to be where the Steelers were doing their warm-up exercises. We just kept walking through rows and rows of seats until we were about half-way around the stadium. The game is starting, so we just sit in random seats in the middle of a row. On the floor, at the 45-yard line. Our tickets said we were supposed to be at the top level. Section 407. We're having a blast as the game starts, I'm jumping up yelling, but my mum says don't, until about 8:30, just in case whoever really has these seats show up and it'll look embarrassing that we have to move. So we're pretty hot, looking all around for people who keep coming down the stairs. Then, into the second quarter, these people come down the stairs, and they stop at our row, and they keep looking, and I see them go back up the stairs. I'm on the lookout if they come back down with security, sure enough, they do. We hightail it to the bathroom. And I was certain that we had to probably go to our real seats. But I make sure that I talk to security going out, asking them where the bathroom is, and my mum does the same. While we're in the bathroom, I think the Redskins got a touchdown, and my mum was like, "why do I always miss stuff". When we go back through the tunnel, the lady holds out her hand to see our tickets, and my mum says, "How come when I leave, I miss the good stuff?" And the lady was like, "I know, you just left and missed a first down." And she let us through with out looking for our tickets! Then we take some end seats on the 50-yard line, and we stay there for the rest of the game!! Even though I had to pee again sometime during half-time, I held it to the end of the game. That is good considering that I had two beers and a Sprite before the game.
Now for the details that I didn't really get to. *All said in one breath, very fast.* OMGICANTBELIEVEIWASSITTINGRIGHTBEHINDTHESTEELERSBENCHONTHE50YARDLINEINROW21!!! I was close enough to almost touch Ben. I took plenty of photos, although only 3 came out nice enough to share with anyone. Hopefully, all the ones I took on the normal camera come out good. I'm still freaking out that I got to see him in person, and not from the top level of the stadium. Believe you me, there is a MAJOR difference between "I was at the game" and "I was at the game, on the 50, behind my favorite team, and I saw my favorite player WAY closer than expected." Oh yeah, big difference.
Now to upload MY photos from last night before I go scouring the Internet for good ones.
I know it's blurry, but if you look at the camera man, and count three people over to the right, that's Ben! You can see the 7 on his jersey.
Towards the left of the photo, the lone guy coming back to the Steelers bench is Ben!
I don't know if I thought I saw Ben, or if I'm just taking a group photo, but it came out pretty nice.
I guess that'll be it for me this time. I know there are probably a million and one little details I'm forgetting, but all in all, I had a blast. And I noticed that I had the best birthday ever, without my friends. I think I should just cash my chips in, and become a hermit. Or just find better friends. But lets not let that spoil my birthday buzz from last night, or that could still be the beer.
Well, before I go, I think I should upload a Ben pic for myself...
If I just close my eyes
I reach out and touch the prize
I'm phasing and a happy 21st to me! 