On Friday morning Jackie dropped me off at the airport bright and early. I met my friend Jake and we were off to Chicago. For some reason we had a lay over in Long Beach. Our plane ended up not arriving for some reason and they had to fly another plane to LB for us. We were at that airport for over 5 hours. By the time we arrived in Chicago it was already 8 at night. We just went to the sports bar at the hotel and watched another amazing Jazz come back. We had some great food as well.
Saturday morning we woke up early and it was a good thing we did. I had always wanted to see Wrigley Field. We stopped by there and took some pictures. It was awesome. It's just in the middle of a neighborhood and has tons of sports bars surrounding it. I really wish it would have been baseball season so I could have watched the Cubs.
Standing out front of the stadium.
Statue of Ernie Banks who is known as "Mr Cub."
Here is the back of the stadium.
If you look close enough you can see the bleachers that are on top of an apartment building across the street.
The view just behind left field. Have to love their old school scoreboard.
Next we started on our drive to
Notre Dame Stadium. On the way we passed Soldier Field where the Bears play and
Comiskey Park where the White
Sox play. After finally finding a place to park, we headed toward the stadium. Here is my buddy Jake in front of "Touchdown Jesus."
Here is me in front of the famous stadium. It was such a cool atmosphere. It's what the people in South Bend live for. It was an once in a lifetime experience. The people were great for the most part and there were tons of Utah fans.
Here is another picture of the famous building.
In front of one of the statues of one of their famous coaches.
I thought these were cool, they had them all over. They are replicas of their national championship rings. We both ate a Brat hot dog and they headed for our seats.
We got inside and had amazing seats. We were just above the players tunnel. After the ND touchdown in the second half we almost caught the extra point ball. The guy that caught it, gave the ball back and since he did, they let him down on the field. He was so excited.
It was awesome that everything was for the most part old. They have the original wood bleachers from 1930. No video jumbo tron. Just this scoreboard below. I do have to say that the ND band was amazing and were a lot of fun to watch.
Here are some pictures of the Utah section. The guys behind us said it was probably the biggest visitor crowd they had ever seen at a ND game. Ute fans were everywhere. Before the rain started and everyone put on ponchos, there was even more red in the stands.
I couldn't even fit the whole Utah section in one shot and then the rest of us fans were scattered through out. Before the game one guy remarked, isn't this our (ND) home game.
Sadly though, the game did not go Utah's way. Things just never got going for us. Oh well though, it was such a cool game day experience that even with our loss, the trip was way worth it.
Picture of the ND sideline.
Picture of Chicago on the way home. The clouds were amazing. This was my view for quite some time.
What a fun trip!
Our next craft that we wanted to do was our baby's name in blocks with cute paper on them. We have decided on the name Jackson and I am hoping that it doesn't change once our little one arrives. C.J. stained the blocks, I cut out the paper and we both mod podged the paper on the blocks. We want to find a shelf to put them on, so we are on the lookout.
We wanted to find a really comfy chair for me to be able to nurse in and hold the baby in. According to C.J. it will be my bed once the baby arrives. Ha! He is so funny. We found this chair and we both really liked it so we decided it would be a good purchase and something that will last us hopefully through all our children. It is really comfy and I can't wait to rock Little Jackson in it.
