Tuesday, September 6, 2011

The US Open

So we knew that the US Open would be in New York when we moved here and we thought that it would be totally awesome if we went to it, so we did! We actually went to the Us Open park on Saturday to see if we could get lucky and buy some tickets from someone but they had signs that said no scalping tickets within 1500 ft. of the area and the seats at the box office were sold out. We did talk to someone who told us to call TicketsNow, so we did and found a pretty great deal on a couple of tickets for the night session on labor day. We were a little nervous cuz we knew we had to take Jaylee and it could get pretty late but we decided it was a once in a lifetime chance and we shouldn't pass it up.
The day session ended up going long so our session, which was suppose to start at 7, didn't start until 8:30. We got to see Wozniacki's (#1 women's player) match first and it ended up being 3 hours long so we didn't get to the men's match until 11:30. We were thinking there was no way that Jaylee would last but we decided to go as long as she was doing okay. She turned out to be a champ and actually loved being there! She loved to clap, cheer and dance with the crowd and loved watching/talking to the people around us. Everyone loved her!
Blake's dream came true and we were able to watch Roger Federer play. It was awesome! He crushed his opponent which was good because his match was only about an hour and a half long, but it was about 1:40am at this point and we still had to make it home. It ended up taking us two hours to get home because we had to wait for the trains which not running as much because it was so late/early AHHH! Oh well that's the price you pay when you do something crazy like that.



5 comments:

MeiLani and Michael said...

That is SO cool! Michael will be so jealous! We were supposed to babysit for a couple that was going this week but they cancelled! SO COOL!

Brooke said...

SO jealous!!! I LOVE tennis! Glad you guys are getting to do things you will probably never get to experience again!!

kevin and heather said...

Wow I am so glad you got that opportunity! Sounds awesome... I can't believe that Jaylee made it that late. I bet she was a zombie but the cutest one ever!

Curtis said...

Well, without Blake and Kevin aroud, I had no idea about the US Open, but am glad that you guys siezed the moment and lived it up.Late/early and all. love you guys!

The Voorhees Family said...

Wow, I'm impressed that you guys braved that! I'm glad to see that you're having fun while you're there. We miss you guys! Nathan keeps asking when he'll get to go to Blake and Amy's house.