Columbus Crew

Saturday March 26th the four of us headed to Columbus for a Columbus Crew soccer game.  Our friends had won these four tickets to the game and then were not able to attend due to illness and offered us the tickets.  We all had a lot of fun, despite the chilly weather.

When we stepped out of the fan, we saw this cute little puppy in the parked van next to us.  The puppy had on an adorable little purple sweater and was jumping up to see us and whimpering.  Andrew would have loved to get the puppy out!  I felt really bad for the poor puppy, stuck inside a cold van for hours!!

Here is Chad, Carson and Andrew all bundled up at the soccer game.  It was free Columbus Crew beanie hat day, which was kind of exciting!!  The weather was really chilly.  Carson kept saying "I want to go home now!"  But we did make it through the entire game.  We had hats, gloves, winter coats, blankets and then warmed up with a little hot chocolate as well. (4 hot chocolates = $12!  And before that we had hot dogs, brats, water and Gatorade for something over $30.  Crazy over priced food!)

 Here is a picture of players, so you know we were really at the soccer match.  The game did have some exciting moments but ended with the score of 0 - 0.  :(

This was my first soccer game at this level and it's been a while since I was at a public sporting event.  We did go to a Reds baseball game last fall but this was different.  Our seats were close to a large section of very vocal Crew fans.  Maybe it was because it's been a while since I have been to a game or the fact that the boys were with us, but I was shocked by the crude language in their cheers and the way the fans of the Crew and the opposing team would attack each other verbally just because they were fans of the other team.   It definitely took away from my experience for this family outing.