Next morning, Saturday, after a great French toast breakfast (thanks Sue) we drove to Seattle. We had a little adventure along the way. We went to the Nexus line because Derek and I both have Nexus and we thought that non Nexus people could come through with a Nexus person. Just to be clear, there was no line up at the regular line, we just picked the nexus line because we could.
Apparently it’s an offense to try to take people without Nexus through the Nexus line. We were “detained“ while they checked to make sure there was no other bad reasons we would sneak someone through Nexus, or other black marks against Derek‘s Nexus.
They finally let us go with a warning after about 45 minutes. The penalty could have been $5000 and loss of the Nexus card. We tried to figure out why we were confused about taking people to the Nexus line but it is probably just that at security at the Calgary airport that they often let people in the Nexus line. In fact yesterday, the YYC security did not let us go through the Nexus line with Ben on the way to Vancouver. The TSA person could have just turned us around and sent us through the regular line but I guess they needed something to do – it was a quiet morning.
We made it to the hotel in Seattle at about 11:30 it’s just enough time to get to the game at 12:30.
We decided to rent Lime scooters for the trip from the hotel to the Huskies Stadium. What fun! All the roads are under construction and it felt at times we were going cross country.
As we got closer to the stadium, the density of the people (especially purple jerseys) increased greatly. By the time we got to the doors it was shoulder to shoulder as we found the entrance. The stadium was super tall. The steps were barely big enough to hold on to a foot. There was no space in front of us for a feet when you’re sitting at the seats. They have mostly bench seats up in the nosebleeds where we were. That’s why they can fit 70,000 people in there. It was a metal construction stadium so stomping at the feet was very loud. The stadium was crazy loud. At times the noise kind of swirled and you could feel your your protective mechanisms clapping down as the decibels got up. They say this is the noisiest stadium in football. It was pretty much a constant rumble throughout the entire game. Up where we were sitting, there are lots of Oregon ducks fans including their whole marching band. What a great atmosphere. We were so high up the field looked like a postage stamp.
The game was a little slow. Not much scoring in the first half. In the second half the ducks took over. The Huskies made a run for it in the third quarter by scoring but the outcome was never in doubt. Lots of purple people were not so happy.
After the game we walked through University of Washington and then headed back to the hotel by bus. The bus driver let us ride for free because we couldn’t figure out how to pay. That evening we walked into downtown, and and saw the space needle and the Arena where the Kraken play. We went for dinner at a White Swan restaurant down the street from the hotel and then back to the hotel to get to sleep, ready for Sunday. The Clam chowder was the best I have ever had – it so chunky thick with clam and potatoes – awesome!!
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