Batteries!!!

Perhaps not everyone knows just how lucky I am to even have any pictures from the Metrodome. If not, please let me explain. With 22 minutes to go before the start of the game, I look at my camera flashing it's low battery light, ask everyone with a camera in our row if they have batteries, and then panic!! I have to have new batteries... maybe they sell them somewhere in the Metrodome. After Milo asked a concession worker, I learned I was SOL! So with time ticking away, I decide I have to leave the Metrodome in search of batteries. I get my wristband and ask the security man where the best/closest place for batteries would be. "Well, you're going to get in your car..." Yeah, I really didn't hear anything beyond that for two reasons. First, I didn't have the keys, and secondly even if I did have the keys there is no way I am going to lose my $10 "prime" parking spot to spend another $10 for a "not so great, your late for the game" parking spot. But then the security guy adds..."Or you could try the hospital, they are right across the street."

Great... the hospital it is!! I take off (on foot) to what he pointed out as the hospital across the street. Rush in and find the information desk. Yadda, yadda, yadda I need batteries, where's the gift shop. And let me just say that this women really only worked in one speed... that being SLOW! She says, "Well, you are in the brown building and the gift shop is in the blue building. So you'll need to go to the blue building and I am not even sure if the gift shop is open. Let me call them." So very SLOWLY she finds out that the gift shop is open and directs me to the blue building which is across the street. HELLO? All the buildings are brown once I get outside. I see no blue. So I head the brown building across the street. Find an information desk, with a nice young women who luckily moves much quicker then the first. Yadda yadda yadda, where's the gift shop. She says, "Oh you are in the red building (WHAT???) and you need to go to the blue it's across the street. I am not sure if they're open let me call them." No thanks I already know they are open and I also know that none of the buildings are BLUE!!!!! So I head out, cross the next street and at this point am running to the what I am hoping is the blue building. Huffing and puffing I make my way into the building and find blue carpet, blue walls, and even a nurse dressed in the blue scrubs. YES this has to be the blue building. And finally I score some batteries!





Four minutes left to 10:00 on my watch, I am four blocks from the Metrodome and RUNNING with six strands of beads bouncing up and down and thankfully NOT wearing football glasses. Can you imagine how I was look then? Sprinting to the Metrodome the security guy (which I had just talked to) now wants to check my camera bag! WHAT??? I just left here, yadda yadda yadda, remember I am the one that needed batteries?!?! Oh yeah that's right.

Find section 133 three heading towards the steps... oh crap! Told Kevin and Carter I would bring them something to drink. So I head to the concessions stand order my stuff and come to find out that there actually a speed slower then the hospital lady. And that would be the speed of the women helping me at the concessions stand. GIVE ME MY DRINKS AND TAKE THE MONEY!!! I wanted to shout. Oh my gosh, oh my gosh... tick tick tick... will I make it?


Yes, I did, with probably only a minute to spare. I slid right into that seat and happily made it for the Star Spangled Banner! PHEW!


So I really hope you enjoy the pictures! And just for the record, it was all worth it!! {:0)