It's pretty hard not to be a Packer fan when you live in Wisconsin. I resisted at first and it's taken 10 years, but I finally gave in this season. So on Monday, when I heard that the team was returning to Green Bay with the Lombardi Trophy for a celebration at Lambeau Field on Tuesday, and tickets were only $5.00, I jumped at the chance to be a part of the excitement.
Jason had Tuesday off and we pulled the kids out of school at noon. It only takes 90 minutes, door to door, to get to Lambeau Field. We were lucky enough to park in our friend's parent's driveway, which is literally 2 blocks away from Lambeau. If not for that, I don't know what we'd have done since neither one of us is very familiar with Green Bay and parking was ridiculous. There were, after all, 55,996 other people there and I later heard that people were scalping tickets for upwards of $140!
We mingled in the atrium for a while and I kept my eye open for Aaron Rodgers to stroll past at any moment. I foolishly had a newspaper picture of him and a sharpie in my purse...just in case. But we did run into several friends, including Charity's family, from Wausau before we took our seats.
Inside the stadium, sitting on freezing cold benches, we waited patiently to watch the team arrive with the trophy.
But with temps in the single digits and surely colder with the wind chill factor, we didn't last long. The kids were losing feeling in their toes and my fingers would begin to burn every time I took them out of my mittens to snap a picture.
We stayed until the team arrived and Coach McCarthy walked out with the trophy. Unfortunately, I spent most of the time turned around looking at the JumboTron behind me.
Back in the atrium to warm up with a hot cocoa, we ran into Charity's family again. And we both agreed, even though the crowds were crazy and it was freezing beyond belief...we were glad to be there and to be a part of Wisconsin football history!
GO PACK GO!
Jason had Tuesday off and we pulled the kids out of school at noon. It only takes 90 minutes, door to door, to get to Lambeau Field. We were lucky enough to park in our friend's parent's driveway, which is literally 2 blocks away from Lambeau. If not for that, I don't know what we'd have done since neither one of us is very familiar with Green Bay and parking was ridiculous. There were, after all, 55,996 other people there and I later heard that people were scalping tickets for upwards of $140!
We mingled in the atrium for a while and I kept my eye open for Aaron Rodgers to stroll past at any moment. I foolishly had a newspaper picture of him and a sharpie in my purse...just in case. But we did run into several friends, including Charity's family, from Wausau before we took our seats.
Inside the stadium, sitting on freezing cold benches, we waited patiently to watch the team arrive with the trophy.
But with temps in the single digits and surely colder with the wind chill factor, we didn't last long. The kids were losing feeling in their toes and my fingers would begin to burn every time I took them out of my mittens to snap a picture.
We stayed until the team arrived and Coach McCarthy walked out with the trophy. Unfortunately, I spent most of the time turned around looking at the JumboTron behind me.Back in the atrium to warm up with a hot cocoa, we ran into Charity's family again. And we both agreed, even though the crowds were crazy and it was freezing beyond belief...we were glad to be there and to be a part of Wisconsin football history!
GO PACK GO!
