roy & bec do america: J - E - T

This morning we had a sleep in (yah) and now we are getting ready to go to see the Jets with Leanne and Kleber, we are all very excited.

The good news is that it stopped snowing at some point overnight, so we wont have to contend with that today at the game.

We met up at Penn Station on 7^th Ave and we are taking the train to the game at Meadowlands Stadium.

Its so cold today its not even funny, we have on so many layers of clothes, haha both the boys have pants on under their jeans!! Hehe and more than 1 pair of socks on. We all have at least 4 layers of clothes on and is wearing 2 beanies.

We make it to the stadium along with thousands of others on this particular train. The train was delayed getting out there due to the snow. The thing that stood out on the way out to the game was that almost everybody was drinking, they were getting loaded on the way. It’s not bad, I think its great, but its different and not something you see at home.

We make our way to our seats, and they are awesome, we are 3 rows from the front and right behind the goals. We are all excited for like 10 minutes, the Jets score a touchdown on a long pass and stop the Falcons on the goal line in front of us, then the cold sets in, I have never been so cold in all my life, I thought I was going to cry at one stage, and I couldn’t feel my feet or my hands. But not Roy, he was loving every second of it, but we kept watching the game, then at half time we went to get hot chocolate and food for lunch, the whole time all trying to warm up the body parts that felt like they were snap frozen, Kleber almost fell down the stairs as his legs stopped working! Haha

After half time we all seemed to warm up a bit.

The Jets were up 7 to 3 the whole game then with 1.38 to go they let the Falcons score a touchdown to lead 10 to 7!! Boooo. The Jets then have a chance to win but the Quarterback throws his 3^rd interception of the day and the game is over.

Still it was a good game, pretty close just a shame that they missed 3 field goals or they could have won it very easily. So frustrating, still we all loved it and it was a great experience, the atmosphere was unreal, the crowd really gets into it and by the end of the game we were joining in with all the chants as well and standing up and cheering on the defence on 3^rd downs. The rules are harder to follow not being on tv, but the boys were there to tell us what was going on.

The train ride back into NYC at least gave us the opportunity to warm up again as they are heated, so that definitely helped the toes etc. Once back in Manhattan we headed to Jims Saloon on 23^rd street with Leanne & Kleber for some dinner and drinks while watching the other football games. We stayed for a while watching the games, swapping stories and having a great time. The girls got a little tipsy on Margaritas.

We all decided to take the subway back uptown (we were headed to 44^th street) and so we finally to got to experience this most famous of transit systems. We only lasted one stop on the subway but packed in all the things you would expect to see on the subway. We had a delay after the first stop due to difficulties on the line (due to the snow), there was a crazy woman complaining very loudly and often about the delay, there was the homeless guy sitting on the bench outside the train when we decided to walk the rest of the way (he smelled so bad, it was like he had shit his pants a week ago and still had them on, so bad). We walked up Broadway back into Times Square which was still busy at 8.30 on a Sunday night, there was still shopping that could be done as places were still open…but we didn’t, we went home and rested up.