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Its a beautifully chilly day in lovely New York! We are in town to see a soccer game, as Greg has recently become a soccer fan and well, after this game I caught the bug! It was Chelsea vs. Manchester City..commonly referred to as "City".
Let me just say that soccer fans are nuts. All the players were European. The only player I know is Joe Hart. Not even sure if I spelled his last name right. The only reason I know who he is, is because there were young girls sitting behind us screaming his name. Actually, some of the crazy New Yorker guys in front of us were screaming his name too. Pretty sure it was a "man crush"!
They were sitting in the front row (we were in the 2nd row, fab seats!) shouting "Joe Hart, Joey Hart, look at me kid..Joe, Joey, Joey Hart.." Just picture that little kid on Family Guy that says "mommy mommy mommy" like 6 thousand times..that was this Guy with Joe Hart.
At one point, Joe Hart did turn around and look and then gave us all a wink. Totally can see why everyone loves this Guy. He reminds me of a better version of Sean on the bachelor. He's got that all American look..although as Greg quickly reminded me he is English, not American. Whatever, you guys know what I am talking about!
The guys bothering Joey Hart were nuts, and more than once security came over asking to see their tickets, with the threat of booting them. They would smooze them, hug them and promise to behave, then go back to being total loony's. It was thoroughly entertaining!
Greg said the guys sitting behind us were actually from Manchester and they said amidst all the craziness it is still nothing compared to a game in Europe...very calm all things considered!
Everyone at the game seemed to be Chelsea fans except for us and well... the lunatics in front of us. Thank goodness they drew the attention away from us though. So we had no issues, although I'm pretty sure the guy threatened to fight someone like twice.
Oh, so this would not be a travel blog unless I talked about food. Which, in NY is freaking expensive! Corn dog and soda 10 bucks. And don't think of a big corn dog, think like 3 bites by me and the thing is gone. Its normal for stadium food though, stadium food is always expensive!
On the drive in to NY, we saw the Freedom Tower. It looks beautiful from the outside. It stands tall compared to all the other buildings.
Its even more beautiful at night when it is lit up (red white and blue). I can't wait to go back and see it finished. Would love to go back and actually go shopping in the city and get dinner and see a show. That's our next NYC trip!
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