Since I can't sleep, I thought I would write a little in here...

Dave is out of town, and I can never sleep well when he isn't here.  He'll be gone for two weeks.  No he's not TDY.  He is in Dallas.  For the Super Bowl.

And he is getting paid to be there!

That guy is soooo lucky when it comes to stuff like that!  LOL  He is working is butt off though.  I love talking to him every day and hearing about his day.  This is only the pre-event week, so I can't wait to hear about all his experiences during the hectic week of, and on game day.  He doesn't get a seat at the game, but he gets to be in the stadium to watch the game.  How cool is that? 

The tickets to this game are ridiculous!  I can't believe they are going for $2000 each!  The hotels (if you are lucky enough to find one) are gouging people's pockets.  I read somewhere that to tailgate and watch the game OUTSIDE the stadium costs $200.  Wah??  I think it would be an awesome experience, but I couldn't pay that kind of money to do it.  I'll just live vicariously through Dave I guess.  I am stoked that he gets to do it though.  It's a Bucket List item for him (though he'd rather it be the Giants playing).

I am even more stoked that he doesn't have to pay money to do it!

Triple stoked that they are paying him!  LOL

Today was a slow day (for both him and I).  It felt like it just dragged on and on...  Hopefully tomorrow won't be so bad.

I better get to bed and TRY to sleep or I will be hating life in tha AM...

My family watched the Super Bowl last night just as many American families did.  Even though I was secretly hoping for Peyton Manning to do well (I am a huge fan of Peyton even though I am a Giants fan and root for his little bro), I was glad to see the Saints get their first Super Bowl win.  Newly transplanted in the Shreveport area, it was really cool to see all the Saints pride during the football season, and to see that pride swell once the Saints made it in to the big game.

The people in this area have been excited to say the least!  All the kids at my youngest son's school wore their Saints pride on Friday.  A neighbor painted a HUGE fleur de lis onto his yard.  There have been flags, banners, and all kinds of decor all over the city.  When we were saying good bye to our guests last night, we had to laugh...  We opened the front door and heard the neighbors hooting and hollering and shooting off fireworks - awesome!

But one of the BEST things about the evening?  This:



We had to rewind this commercial over and over again - we laughed so hard.  The kids laughed so hard.  Even better?  This commercial wasn't made by a high priced, fancy ad agency.  It was made by a regular Joe as part of the Crash the Superbowl Contest by Doritos.  I had no idea, but all the other Doritos ads that aired during the Superbowl were also the contest winners who won cash for their ads - how fun!

Those of you out there with film making skills should get on it for next year!

And we couldn't be more happy!

My DH was looking on the Giants' Website a couple weeks ago when they made the playoffs and saw a photo of a familiar scene.

He remembered those "Win and In" towels that everyone was waving and thought, "Hey! We were at that game..."... We bought season tickets off of Ebay in 2002 (we lived in Washington, DC then) and had gone to this game... The kids stayed with Grandma in CT, and we drove down to Jersey and froze our butts off - it was December 28, 2002. The playoff berth between the Giants and the Eagles...

Then he looked at the photo harder and said, "That's US!"... Yep! We made the very corner of the photo:

And then we sent it to pretty much everyone we knew... LOL It was a great game. We left early to beat the traffic and could have KICKED ourselves. We missed Matt Bryant's game winning 39 yard field goal in overtime (though we heard it on the radio and nearly wrecked the car)... But I guess had we stayed we still might have been waiting to get on the freeway right about now... :D