The Rio Tinto Stadium debuted with Real SLC playing against the NY Red Bulls on October 7, 2008. Our family had anticipated being a part of the inaugural game opener for quite some time. The big day was finally here and we all bundled up and headed to SLC. We had only seen the stadium from the freeway and it looked beautiful all lit up. Our excitement increased as we got nearer and nearer to our final destination. Upon exiting the freeway the talk in the car was to find free parking and to take the first available spot as the traffic was heavy and we were a bit crunched for time. We found what we thought to be a great spot and hastily exited our vehicle and started going with the masses to the stadium. We found ourselves heading down a dirt path with a stream and trees surrounding us. No worries everyone was headed in the same direction. A conversation was heard that this was the best place to cross and not to go farther downstream. We just kept going forward. Our group was scattered and mom was left behind following everyone else and trying to keep Josh on Mom radar. Finally the group stopped and we slowly inched ourselves down a steep slick incline and across some wooden pallets. Thankfully some kind gentlemen took hold of Char's hands and helped her. She soon found Fred, he was perched up on a chain link fence helping all the people he could to get across. Char could see the rest of our group had hopped the six foot chain link fence and as she looked up and down she could also see many others jumping like someone was after them. At that point we felt like illegal immigrants trying to cross the border to freedom. Someone was so kind to lift the bottom of the fence so that some of us 'older' women could be freed and move toward the stadium. Mr. M. (Little K's friend) managed a gymnastic move to get over the fence. Fred raced over to the east side to the will call window to pick up our tickets. Poor Mr. M., he just hobbled along with the rest of us and we were able to get in our seats right at the beginning of the match.
It turned out to be a fun evening and we all laugh about the fence hopping episode.
4 comments:
You Carlson's! That fence was there for a reason...to keep people like you from climbing over or going under.
I loved the allusion to illegal aliens crossing the border.
Great story! I wish I could have seen it happening. I would have called the Nordfelt brute squad to come over and bust you all. Then I would really have had a good chuckle.
thats hilarious! Its all about what memories are made of.
how funny!
I could expect things like this only from you guys. ha ha ha. May we all be envious of the Carlson's for making the game at the new stadium. We'll be going next year when our little one is old enough to have a sitter.
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