First Down - Pirates

Megan posted online the other day that we were trying to find ECU tickets. She was trying to find out how much they would be, but they were no longer selling online because the game was sold out. I was completely unaware of the inquiry and was very surprised to get a call from a friend who said he had four tickets. I told him I thought that we would be interested in them, and how much did he want for them. When he said I want to give them to you I told him we were definitely interested! Within the hour I had these.

It turned out that they were not only tickets, they were great tickets, this was our view from the stands.

For us, a football game is less about football and more about the experience. Three girls, not really understanding what was going on, but fully aware of the festivity around them. They loved it ...

Emily saw a kid with a foam finger and that is what she wanted on this day. The problem is that the finger the kid had was a reasonable size, the only ones that they were selling on this day were big. So, Emily Grace has a foam finger as big as her.

Everyone loved it ... You can still see the faint outline of Addison's whiskers from facepainting the night before at the fall festival at Brinson elementary.

Olivia ran into the Bojangles chicken and even this vegetarian could not pass up a photo-op. Besides, this chicken is still alive; he just represents dead chickens who are about to be deep fat fried.

And then there was the food.

We had popcorn and we had drink but the big hit of the day was purple cotton candy! 

It was a day of fun, the weather was perfect, the game was perfect, the food was perfect, and even the football was perfect; East Carolina defeated Tulsa. We even ended up staying for the whole game – no one would've predicted that.

A shout out to Lloyd and Wendy Daw who generously gave us these great seats for this day. Our family enjoyed every last bit of this entire college football experience. We shall not soon forget this day.

We all left with smiles like these.