I just got home from yet another Blazers game. Philip M got free tickets through work again. I met some of his coworkers, and there might even be a job opportunity that comes out of this. Cool.
This time we watched from a “sky box.” You can’t see the individual players and moves as well, but it’s a great vantage point to keep an eye on the whole game. It was a fairly uninteresting game, but it was a fun experience.
A dark & blurry view of the proceedings.
Philip and I spent most of the time chatting about relationships and love and meeting new people and what not. That was good. Very therapeutic, although we didn’t arrive at any definite answers to the harder questions/issues.
A semi-interesting photo of the view above our heads. It took me a while to notice this.
I rode the MAX across the river and then walked about two miles home in the rain. My outer garments were wet, but I stayed warm (layers, yo!). I love walking home in the rain at night. There’s no better time to think and feel.
After dinner at The Farm, Philip and I went to a Blazers basketball game at the Rose Garden Arena. Philip got free tickets from somewhere, and I’m always down for a novel experience, which this definitely was for me. I’ve been to one other pro sporting event that I remember, a Red Sox baseball game in Boston back in the late 80s. I went to one Ducks basketball game while I was at the University of Oregon.
I’m no sports fan, but I love basketball as a game. It’s such a dance–part choreographed, part freestyle–conducted by intricate rules of timing, interaction, and boundaries.
Part of the fun was people watching. Watching them get excited when the Blazers scored or screwed up. Watching them ogle and take pictures of the cheerleaders. Watching them spend $6.50 on pints of Budweiser.
The arena takes great advantage of the large captive audience and advertises with all kinds of flashing lights, announcements, and giveaways of junk.
I took some pictures (of the game and crowd, not the cheerleaders) with my phone, but none of them are worth posting here.
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