Super Bowl in Town

I don't know if you know this but the Super Bowl is in Phoenix this year. (Actually, the Waste Management Phoenix Open is this week too, so we have had fans of football and golf in town all week! roughly 1 million people are expected to be visiting the Phoenix Metro area in about a 5 day span of time) We have hardly noticed a difference...

Yep, it is as if the Super Bowl...or more likely Bud Light and Pepsi exploded on the city. My friend Eliza and I took the lightrail downtown and it took about an hour, packed like sardines. We were happy to do it because when we got downtown anyone in a car was in a standstill trying to park (where? I don't know) But I will say the organizers of the Downtown Super Bowl Central space are excellent. Although there were hundreds of thousands of people downtown you could still move around, the lightrail ran smoothly, everything was clean and there was definitely a strong police presence so you feel safe too. 

We did a quick walk around some of the sites and tents. There was a line for everything but it was all free and you could get free stuff, or a picture or video of you doing something funny. We got our pictures in front of the roman numerals (the "it" thing to do) and then headed over to a volunteer shift at our university tent. 

Our tent was pretty fun. You could get pictures with our mascot, play solar-powered electric football and watch videos. We had free swag too like eye-blacks, water bottles and foam fingers. It was fun but man am I sore after standing for 8 hours on asphalt. 

We had a Flat Stanley sent to our office so I brought him along to our tent.

I will safely be watching the Super Bowl from a friend's house, away from the crowds. As dad said, it might as well be happening anywhere since I will watch it on TV as usual.