The Day at Lambeau

Tuesday 25th September 2007
at 10:53pm

What better way to spend the day than going to the Atrium at Lambeau to check it out properly for the first time? Thinking about where to have lunch and spend what could have been a wet and windy day was easy knowing that we hadn’t actually had a good look around the venue that brought us some 15,000 miles in the first place.

For a while I had wanted to get to Curly’s for a meal and it certainly didn’t disappoint. After both the Eagles and Chargers home games I have walked out of the stadium into the atrium and looked up at what seemed a very buzzing, very full pub worthy of spending a post game hour or two. Wanting to live it up I had decided not to go there without Kelly cause it always struck me as the sort of place she would love to go to aswell. We’ll still get there after the first game we both attend but for now it was nice to go somewhere that offered a “sit-down” meal and had more than cheeseburgers on the menu.

My first impression was great. I wondered if I had charged the battery on the camera though ‘cause I could see about 1000 photos being taken in very quick succession. We went easy ‘cause the kids, despite being totally gorgeous will only stand for so many pictures in a day. The memorabilia was incredible and the pictures on the wall make you realise that this team has some serious history behind it. Sure, we all know that already but you can’t escape the heritage in everything you see and do here.

The meal itself was delicious if not rushed. With Ben having already spotted the games room and Luc wanting to do what Ben wanted to do we threw our food down in true parent style and escaped to play as many coin-operated machines as our new pre-paid, coin-operated card would allow.

We visited the Pro-shop on our way out and I was tempted by every single piece of anything that had a green “G” on it. That is to say that I was tempted from bar-room carpet to player jerseys and novelty bobble-heads to baby pacifiers (which we call dummies to the un-initiated). I am proud to say that I was able to avoid going completely overboard and we bought a few little things for the boys only. This won’t last though. Winter is coming and there’s going to be a ton of things that I know I’ll “need” to buy at the time.

Apart from doing our best to take more photographs on our way to the car, this one with our very good friend and photographer, chauffer and confidant extrodinaire Tari, we headed home for a quiet night of R and R before what we know is going to be a big weekend ahead.

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