Favorite Sports Memories

I have been to some pretty awesome sporting events in my life:

• BYU football team beat 5th ranked Texas A&M the first game of the year
• The NBA Finals, Jazz vs. Bulls game with Nick and his brother Jeremy outside in the parking lot of the Delta Center on a huge TV with thousands of other fans (I think they lost that game - still awesome!)
• A professional lacrosse game in the Denver Broncos stadium with Jeremy, Justin, and Breanne.
• A few MLB (pro baseball) games including some spring training games in Arizona (my favorite place to be in the spring).

But I think last Friday night topped them all. My Dad called me Friday morning and asked if I wanted to go to the Jazz playoff game against Denver. Of course I said yes since I haven't been to a Jazz game in like 7 years. He said they might be pretty good seats because his boss was offering them to him. He called back and said they were on the 8th row!! And they came with a VIP dinner before the game. I was pretty pumped all day waiting to go. I was just telling Kalli a couple weeks ago how much I would love to see a Jazz game from just a few rows up.
Well, as excited as I was to see the game, it was way more amazing than I had thought!! The whole game I was just taking it all in, hardly believing that I was there with such great seats. It was so fun to just sit there and watch, I wanted the game to last a lot longer (even though I had a headache from all the noise!). We were so close, it was like we were in the game. You don't know how big, fast, and athletic these guys are until you see them up close. It was awesome!


Check out that ticket! Pricey; however, I thought it would be more for those seats.


We had to check out the seats when we first got there. We were pretty excited about them at that point! (we watched Korver hit like 90% of his warm-up shots from all over the court)


We went up to the dinner buffet in a ritzy banquet room on the top floor of the Energy Solutions Arena. It was a pretty small room with an awesome view. There were about 20 other rich suckers eating some of the best food anywhere! (My Dad was pretty excited about the shrimp!) We felt a little awkward and out of place, but happy to be there none-the-less. Needless to say, we felt pretty rich that whole night.


Even watching them warm up was exciting.


Their layup drill was more like a dunk exhibition. I didn't get the best part of it, but for a while they were all just dunking it as hard as they could - Ronnie Price (UVU alum!!) was having his own dunk contest. He was doing some awesome stuff!




The noise was almost unbearable! The crowd was pretty rowdy from the start. My Dad and I were both hoarse by halftime just from trying to talk to each other. My Dad didn't say much the second half because he literally lost his voice.


This kid was hilarious. Every time-out he would get up and dance and try to get the crowd pumped up (not that we needed to be). He looks old, but he must have been in his 20's and a little handicapped (I hope).


The party at the end of the game! I think the only thing that would have made it a better experience is if the Nuggets would've at least put up a fight the last quarter or two.



Just chillin courtside! They let the fans come down on the court after the game. We didn't really want the night to end so we took advantage.


It's going to be hard to top this one. It kind of makes me think it would be worth it to just splurge every once in a while and spend $200 a pop for that experience! (Maybe not on a teacher salary)

How can you not love Disneyland

Well, it's been a few weeks, but I still want to post some pictures of our Disneyland trip with our friends, Kristen and Ian. We had such a fun time at the beach, Disneyland, and California Adventure. We did each in one day, so we weren't there for very long, but it was really fun. The weather couldn't have been better. I think it was about 75 to 80 degrees all three days!

Kalli and I hadn't been there in a long time and didn't remember much, so we were surprised how much we loved it. Everyone was happy, the place was amazingly clean, the rides were fun, and the atmosphere was just really cool! The only thing we could have done without were the parades that jammed up the park every hour. It was kind of funny how we dreaded those. We would see people starting to place blankets on the street..."oh no, here we go again". But it was a perfect trip to get away from school and work for a few days.

The beach was awesome. We didn't spend much time there, but it was so nice to just walk around in the water and take a nap on the warm sand.

We went to Santa Monica beach because we heard it was really nice. In the background of this picture you can see the Santa Monica Pier which I guess is pretty famous. While we were there, someone was shooting a scene for a movie on it, and we were watching a TV show last week and one of the scenes was on the pier. It was pretty cool with a carnival, restaurants, and a few crazy people!

here's a little video we took of all the people running down the pier for the movie they were shooting. There were tons of people!

Joel's never had so much junk in his trunk ;)

Classic
I realized I'm getting older (and wiser) after choosing to wear running shoes instead of "cute" shoes to Disney Land. Function before fashion?

This is one big lego animal!

We ate lunch at the Jazz Kitchen just outside of the park in Downtown Disney. We ate in the courtyard of the restaurant which was so nice. There was hardly anyone there, the weather was perfect, the water fountain and birds gave some nice mood sounds, and the food was delicious! This was one of my favorite parts of the trip, just having a nice, relaxing lunch with Kalli. Ahhh sweet! This was one of my favorite parts too! and their Parmesan fries were waaay good. yum.

Our picture from the buzz light year ride.

Elastagirl, get cha hand off ma man!

I took almost 24,000 steps the day we went to Disney Land! My feet were glad I wore comfy shoes.

There was definitely some "California Screamin" going on! (my favorite ride) lol I love everyone's faces in this

We definitely saw our share of 3D movies. I think this one was the best however. The Bug's Life underground theater was awesome. And the show seemed to be a kid's show, but the effects were crazy! They sprayed us with a mist that engulfed us so fast, I thought I was going to suffocate. They gave us a bee sting where something came out of the bench and poked us (kind of hurt and scared the crud out of everyone!). Then the bugs crawling under our behinds was a little creepy. That was one of the last things we did, but I kind of wanted to do it again!

California Adventure was sweet at night (a lot better than our small camera shows) (I was totally lazy and wouldn't use my big camera. I didn't want to haul it around with me...Joel told me I'd regret it and I totally did)

Well, until next time(you mean next year?;) "happiest place on earth"!!
*kalli's comments in green