the one with the train

Are you ready for some foot­ball?!?!  Amer­i­can foot­ball that is.

Are you ready for some foot­ball?!?!  Amer­i­can foot­ball that is.  On Sun­day we headed down to Lon­don town to watch my beloved NE Patri­ots play at Wem­b­ley.  To say we were excited would be an under­state­ment!

I picked up a white turtle­neck (roll­neck to you Brits) shirt for Squidge to wear and Wal danced around like a loon when I tried it on her.  LOL wish I had a cam­corder!  We had a fan­tas­tic time but I wish we had more time.  We decided to have Por­tuguese food for lunch so headed toward Stock­well(?).  Lunch was good but that meant we were run­ning waaay behind and missed all the pre-game stuff. Live and learn I sup­pose, that is the only thing I would have changed about the day– oooh and miss­ing our train and hav­ing to pay an addi­tional £130 to get on the next train!! But, other than that we wouldn’t change a thing! We were haul­ing it up to the sta­dium and could hear the national anthem being sung.  Did I men­tion Wal had Squidge on his shoul­ders at this point?!?!  Once inside and set­tled we finally were able to relax and enjoy the game.  I taught Squidge to say “GO PATS!!” and she spent the first quar­ter shout­ing it and danc­ing– sooo cute I wanted to eat her up!! LOL gotta love this kid!

We had fan­tas­tic seats– row 20 on the lower level!  I don’t own a zoom lens (85mm is all I have as i don’t need one in my day to day busi­ness) but I would have loved to have one dur­ing the game.  Ah well next time I’ll rent one… or not!

Squidge was sooo good dur­ing the game. We were wor­ried that her atten­tion would wan­der and we’d end up try­ing to keep her enter­tained.  Luck­ily she became fas­ci­nated by the cheer­lead­ers and spent a lot of time stand­ing on my thighs and try­ing to copy their dances– again, wish I had a cam­corder!  At one point she was thirsty and Wal went to buy her a drink.  He came back w/ a JUMBO (although they called it a small) Fanta.

She drank it all up, barely let­ting me have a sip.  Whoo boy did she have a sugar rush– it was funny to watch.  It lasted until the end of the game and then it was a mad dash to try to get to Euston to catch the train back to Man­ches­ter. As I said before we missed the one we had tick­ets for.  I thought we would just be able to get on the next one but nope they made us pay full whack to get on the next train.  Pretty heart­less of them and it’s no won­der peo­ple don’t travel by rail much– it expensive!!

We can’t wait for the next NFL game but we also know that this was a once in a life time event. I mean really when will the Patri­ots play another reg­u­lar sea­son game in Lon­don?!?  Prob­a­bly not for a long time.