A Mini Vacation

Okay, so some of you might not consider it a vacation, but dh and I went to an NFL game (we have season tickets for our team) Sunday and got to stay overnight in one of our new neighbors' (in the new house) loft in the city and come home today. It was sooo wonderful! We love to be able to get away and do it more often in the fall because of football season than any other time of year. We left yesterday morning at 3:30am and went to pick up Tim's mom (she is going to the city to visit her mom for a month and we drove her) and then headed on in. We got to see Tim's grandmother for a few minutes and then headed over to the park. Now for those who don't know, tailgating is a major event in our football season life. We have another couple (their daughter is a cheerleader for our NFL team) that we tailgate with and then another fireman who works with Tim is also there most of the time (he has season tickets, too) and whoever our friends bring with them and anyone else we know that is going. We get to the park at about 8am and have some breakfast and visit, then about 10am or so we start fixing lunch and eat at 11am and go into the game at about 12-12:30pm to see the pregame show. We have a great time watching the game with the other couple and whoever they bring (our tickets are right next to theirs) and then afterwards, we go see their daughter (a lot of times their son and son-in-law are there tailgating and visiting as well as they are both married to cheerleaders) and daughter-in-law and we have some dessert in the parking lot before heading out. We used to go home after our post-game tailgating, but we get so tired, we avoid it now. Our new neighbors have a loft in the city he uses about once a week and so they said we were welcome to stay there any time. We drove around for a while and finally found it (road construction detours, etc. and we were a little lost...thank goodness for the internet and yahoomaps on my phone!) and brought our stuff in to stay the night. What a blessing it was to be able to have some alone time with dh and also not to have to drive home last night! Thank you especially to my mom who was the girls' chauffeur today and got them where they needed to be today.

Today we got up, got ready and drove home, stopping at several "home" places on the way to look at stuff for the house. It was also nice to be able to look at stuff without anyone bothering me. We got home this evening and unpacked the car and are just enjoying our quiet evening together. Yeah!!!!