Real game

Friday evening DH, Luke, M&M and I went to our first Real Salt Lake soccer game. I got some free ticket vouchers for attending a coach's training meeting before the spring soccer season started, so we only had to pay for one of the tickets. Friday was the first game where we could coordinate everyone's schedule and I wanted to go to a game before the baby came along. We headed over to my parents' house after the kids' piano lessons and ate dinner there and then left the three younger ones at their house while the rest of us went to the game.

We parked at the South Towne Expo Center which is across the street and about a block away from the stadium. Parking there was only $5. We got to the stadium right as they were singing the National Anthem and found our seats just after kickoff. We were seated behind the goal on the North side of the stadium, but it wasn't too bad for only have to pay $18 for four of us to attend the game. The jumbo screen was located up and behind our seats so we weren't able to take advantage of that and we had the sun off to the side of us for the first part of the game. The people that had it the worst though were those seated on the east side because they had the sun full in their faces until partway through the second half. The stadium is pretty nice, but a little bit smaller than I was expecting. The seats luckily had backs to them so we were fairly comfortable for the game. Unfortunately the game ended in a 0-0 tie, but it was a fun experience. Luke started getting bored about halfway through game, but I think M&M enjoyed herself. Once the game was over we were able to exit the stadium pretty quickly and had no problems with traffic getting to our car and out of the parking lot. All in all it was a successful evening for us. (I forgot to bring the camera with us though so we weren't able to take any pictures.)

Then it was sad to watch the U.S. lose to Ghana in the World Cup playoffs on Saturday. Ghana definitely outplayed us the majority of the game though...