Cowboy up!

Common Grounds goodness

As I made sure to mention a few weeks ago, Kyle turned 30 this year. He is now the "old" man of the house and to celebrate I got him tickets to see the Dallas Cowboys game in all of Jerry Jones' taxpayers funded glory. Let's just say-we weren't disappointed. Keep your 8.5% coming Texans! We started our Sunday morning road trip with a pit stop in Waco to visit one of my favorite places in the world- 'Common Grounds'. Once we were fully caffeinated- we were safe to resume our trip to 'Cowboys Stadium'- creative name.

Thanks to a helpful tip from a friend we were able to score "free" parking. Free is spending $40 shopping to park at a nearby mall. Which I consider a good deal because at least for my $40 to park, I get a cute shirt to wear. Can't argue with that logic.

So, after a bit of retail therapy we finally headed off for the game!

Kyle outside Cowboy Stadium

A few Cowboys fans

The stadium was packed! There weren't very many empty seats- if any. So, us and the other 80,000 there were all trying to get in at the same time. Which surprisingly wasn't too difficult. They did have separate male and female entrance lines though- I had not seen that before. Although, I must admit I think it was a good idea. First off, there are more men than women at the game. And second off, most woman have a purse that needs to be searched. They really do think of everything these days!

Once we finally reached our seats, we were met with 11,520 square foot jumbo-tron, aka 'Jerry Vision'.

The jumbo-tron in all its glory

Kyle & I managed to buy tickets in the opposing teams section (San Diego)- not sure how! So, we spent the entire game listening to quite a bit of crowd banter. Our favorite quote being "Ahhh, skeet, skeet, skeet" and "What, I can't hear you?". It was a flashback to the good ole middle school days for sure. Unfortunately, it did progress pass middle school antics a few times and the police even made a visit to our section. But in the end all was fine- just a case of macho stupidity! And one drunk loud-mouth (female) cowboys fan.

Field view

The Cowboys ended up losing but we didn't really care either way. We headed back to our car and thanks to the beauty of 'Madge', our GPS system, called ahead and ordered Dominos and ate an entire large pizza on the ride home (okay, we managed to save a few pieces but only after I repeately told Kyle-"We don't HAVE to eat the whole thing you know"). Thanks Jerry Jones for a great day!

-Stacie