Game Day

For those who know me, they know that I am not really into sports. I never really have been and my family growing up wasn't really either. But this weekend while I had a friend visiting me, she wanted to go to a Whitecaps game. I didn't even know who they were or what sport they played until a couple weeks ago when we took the kids I work with to see them practice. I didn't really want to go, but because of the weather our other plans weren't going to work. We booked tickets 2 days before the game and went. 

I am actually really glad we went. It was a lot of fun. I've never been to such a huge sporting event before and it was really cool. The amount of people there and how talent all the players were was crazy. It was unfortunate that the Whitecaps lost but it was still fun to go and be part of the crowd. When we first got there and were sitting down the place didn't look very full, but as the game started it filled up. It was fun to see the rituals that there are before a game starts. We sang the national anthems of both teams as well as the Whitecaps song. Which I had never heard before, but the rest of the crowd was singing and all in their Whitecaps gear. It was very cool. The crowd was pretty calm and it made me wonder what a soccer game in Europe would be like with how much more into soccer they are. You see things on the news highlights about fights breaking out and how dressed up they are in their team colours I think it would be very interesting to see the difference in the crowds. Maybe I just happened to go on a day that the crowd here was very tame. Who knows.
I managed to navigate us to BC Place and the little coffee shop that we wanted to try right near it. We had originally wanted to check out the Catfe, but they were booked and didn't have any space available. One day I will go to the Catfe and play with cats while I drink coffee. But the little cafe we ended up going to was cute and had really good coffee and a coconut nanaimo bar, which was fantastic. 
After the game we went for supper with my man and I learned a new way to get home on the Skytrain. All in all it was a great day!!

Hope everyone had a great long weekend!!

Song of the day: Crash Into Me by Dave Matthews Band