I love the Olympics. They've been advertising for months at Riley's gymnastics place for the gymnastics trials down in San Jose. I looked into getting tickets but they were super pricey and I wasn't sure how into it Riley would be, especially since the only prices that I would even consider paying would be up in the nose bleed section. But then I got an email at work that we had some tickets that had been opened up for private use. Score! I jumped on it. Kellogg's is an official sponsor of the Olympics and we have a gymnast as one of our athletes, Jordyn Wieber, so I was totally excited to jump on these and take Riley. I called Marc up to tell him I was going to get tickets for Riley and I and he wanted to go to so I was able to score 3 tickets for us and we made it a family of four outing. I picked the kids up just after lunch, took Riley to the Dr so her peditrician could chekc her out after her illness (we need to recheck her liver in a month but the Dr wasn't concerned) then we ran home quickly and headed down to Marc's office to pick him up and introduce Jacob to his co-workers. Then we headed to HP Pavillon in San Jose to spend some time in the Hospitality Suite before headed to our seats. Our seats were awesome! We were in row 10, row 8 was the first row, and were right by the beam but had a great view of the vault and could see floor routines, the only thing that was far away was the uneven bars but we could either watch it from a distance or watch it on the videotron. Not a biggie! It was an awesome experience! We didn't get home until close to 10 which meant for 2 hot messes we call children in the car but it was totally worth it, it really was a once in a lifetime opportunity. Riley was totally in it, she was clapping along with the crowd and was in awe of the flips that the girls were doing. As was I, I can barely touch my toes so to see the girls move through the air the way they do is crazy to me! Oh and I was watching the DVR of last nights events and I saw Riley and I on TV today! So here are some pictures that I got! I'm super excited to watch these girls in London now!
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| Enjoying the VIP Hospitality Suite |
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| Our view, floor routine in the middle, vault at the bottom of the picture, uneven bars in the top left |
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| Prime view of the beam |
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| Road to London |
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| The gymnasts! |
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| Warming up for the beam rotation |
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| Mary Lou Retton and Kari Strugg, Shawn Johnson was there also |
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| Pantsomist enjoying a bottle |
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| Riley nd the beam |
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| Loving watching all of the cool moves the gymnasts have! |
