Friday and Saturday I complete all of my holiday gift mailings, put up the outside holiday lights, and got the tree up with lights and garland for DW to do the rest. That left Sunday for me and youngest DS to attend, courtesy of tickets that were gifted to us, The Dallas-Washington football game. It was the first NFL game I had gone to in a long while that I did not have a rooting interest in either team. In a way that made the day much more relaxing.
DS was late getting to our house, so we left about a hour later that I planned. I was concerned that our "secret" parking choice (about a mile from the field but MUCH cheaper than the Fedex field lots) would be full or blocked off, as it is off one of the roads towards the official lots. We got there at 12:45 but there was still plenty of parking spaces, and we made it inside the stadium just after kickoff.
Fedex Field is now a "mobile ticketing" venue. No paper tickets accepted, you have to download tickets onto your smartphone and use that to gain entrance. Also no cash in the stadium, either credit card or mobile payments.
The palace was paced, and other than the workers, only about 10% of the folks had masks on (and probably half of them, including the workers, did not have it over the nose). We did put our masks on when standing in line for food as there was not distancing and folks talking and yelling as things happened on the TV screens, but otherwise we felt fine.
Speaking of the food, we were glad the tickets included a "Gold" Membership which gave use 50% all food purchases. That made the prices almost reasonable. The regular prices - well, those prices are not in line with a LBYM lifestyle
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It was a long day, but worth it. It was very comfortable fall football weather. The game seemed like it would a blowout but got close and exciting at the end. And the time hanging out with DS, talking, and being "entertained" by the back and forth between the Dallas and Washington fans were priceless (naturally we hid our NFL team allegiance, both sets of fans would have made toast of us
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I guess you don't get much for $7,000/month.
