Love, Life, & Games of Chelsea & James: The U.S. Men's National Soccer Game

Last night James and I went to see the U.S. Men's National Soccer team play against Venezuela! That's the nice thing about living in Phoenix--there are so many sporting events around us that we can take our pick! So far we've been to an Arizona Cardinals game, this soccer game, and we'll be sure to go to basketball and hockey games as well. So anyway, back to the game: James was super excited! Soccer is his true love of sports. He's been playing his whole life and at the game last night he says he could watch soccer all day and never be bored.

Before the game we went to our favorite restaurant Chili's. For once I did not get my usual Cajun Chicken Pasta (shocker, I know), I had the California Club Toasted Sandwhich--delish! James had the Southern Smokehouse Bacon Burger. We felt very American :)

We hurried to get to the game at the Cardinals stadium in Glendale (so awesome that it's in the same town that we live in). Traffic was a NIGHTMARE! We couldn't believe how poorly the parking was set up. Cars were backed up for miles. We ended up cutting most of them in line by getting into the farthest lane. When we finally got up to the front of the line to park, the workers there taking the money for parking were not fast at all, in fact they were older folks. No wonder it was taking forever to get to the front of the line! So we hurried and parked and found our seats. Luckily we only missed 20 mins of the game. Ha. Our seats were really good though as you can see in these pictures here.

View from where we were seated

Row 16 seats 1 &2

The game was going pretty slow, no one scored the first 90 minutes of the game! They added extra injury time on at the end. On the USA's last chance, they headed the ball in the 97th minute, scored and won the game 1-0! It was super intense and when they finally scored we all went crazy! The last time I got excited about a game like that was in high school, and that's saying something because I don't get very excited about sports haha.

Go U-S-A!